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Russian
Etymology
From a Turkic language, compare Proto-Turkic *baltu (“axe”).
Pronunciation
Noun
балда́ • (baldá) f inan or f anim or m anim (genitive балды́, nominative plural балды́, genitive plural балд)
- sledgehammer
- (animate, masculine and feminine) blockhead, dolt, dunderhead
1972 [1955, 1938], Lazar Lagin, “Беспокойный вечер”, in Старик Хоттабыч [Starik Xottabyč], page 46; English translation from “A Troubled Evening”, in Faina Solasko, transl., The Old Genie Hottabych, 1960, page 54:— Я превращу в пыль все товары, и все столы, и всё оборудование этой презренной лавки!
— Ты с ума сошёл! — вконец возмутился Волька.— Ведь это государственное добро, старая ты балда!- — Ja prevrašču v pylʹ vse tovary, i vse stoly, i vsjo oborudovanije etoj prezrennoj lavki!
— Ty s uma sošól! — vkonec vozmutilsja Volʹka.— Vedʹ eto gosudarstvennoje dobro, staraja ty balda! - “I’ll turn all the goods, all the tables and all the equipment of this despicable shop into dust!”
“You’re mad!” Volka said, really angry by now. “Don’t you know that’s government property, you dope!”
Declension
Derived terms
Ukrainian
Etymology
From a Turkic language, compare Proto-Turkic *baltu (“axe”).
Pronunciation
Noun
балда́ • (baldá) f inan (genitive балди́, nominative plural ба́лди, genitive plural балд)
- sledgehammer
- (animate, masculine and feminine) blockhead, dolt, dunderhead
Declension
Declension of балда́ (inan hard fem-form accent-d)
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