борода

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Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bordà, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bardā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂.

Pronunciation

  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /bɔrɔˈdɑ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /bɔrɔˈda/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /bɔrɔˈda/
  • Hyphenation: бо‧ро‧да

Noun

борода (borodaf

  1. beard
  2. chin

Declension

Descendants

References

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “борода”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 152

Russian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bordà, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bardā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂. Doublet of брада́ (bradá) borrowed from Old Church Slavonic.

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Noun

борода́ (borodáf inan (genitive бороды́, nominative plural бо́роды, genitive plural боро́д, diminutive боро́дка, augmentative бороди́ща)

  1. beard
    анекдо́т с бородо́йanekdót s borodójstale joke
    • 1883, Всеволод Гаршин, chapter III, in Красный цветок; English translation from A Red Flower, Philadelphia: Brown Brothers, 1911:
      Доктор пристально смотрел ему в глаза. Его красивое холёное лицо с превосходно расчёсанной золотистой бородой и спокойными голубыми глазами, смотревшими сквозь золотые очки, было неподвижно и непроницаемо. Он наблюдал.
      Doktor pristalʹno smotrel jemu v glaza. Jevo krasivoje xoljónoje lico s prevosxodno rasčósannoj zolotistoj borodoj i spokojnymi golubymi glazami, smotrevšimi skvozʹ zolotyje očki, bylo nepodvižno i nepronicajemo. On nabljudal.
      The physician looked intently into the man's eyes. The beautiful, careworn face, with its luxuriant, blonde beard, and calm, blue eyes, which gazed through gold-rimmed spectacles, was motionless and impenetrable. The doctor watched him.
  2. (colloquial) chin
    Synonym: (regular term) подборо́док (podboródok)
    у него́ на бороде́ я́мкаu nevó na borodé jámkahe's got a cleft chin

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See also

Ukrainian

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Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bordà, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bardā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂.

Pronunciation

Noun

борода́ (borodáf inan (genitive бороди́, nominative plural бо́роди, genitive plural борі́д, diminutive борі́дка)

  1. beard
  2. chin
    Synonym: підборі́ддя (pidboríddja)

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