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Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from German Blamage coined by German students by appending the French-based appendix -age (cf. -áž) to blamieren (“to embarrass”), which comes from French blâmer, originally from Late Latin blasphēmō, from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō, “to slander”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
blamáž f
- public disgrace
- Synonyms: ostuda, hanba, potupa
Declension
Declension of blamáž (soft zero-ending feminine)
Derived terms
References
- ^ Jiří Rejzek (2007) “blamáž”, in Český etymologický slovník (in Czech), Leda
Further reading
- “blamáž”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
- “blamáž”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “blamáž”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Slovak
Etymology
Borrowed from German Blamage.
Pronunciation
Noun
blamáž f (declension pattern of dlaň)
- disgrace, shame
- Synonyms: hanba, zahanbenie
Declension
Further reading
- “blamáž”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024