вясёлка

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вясёлка

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Etymology

From вясёлы (vjasjóly) +‎ -ка (-ka). Cognate with Russian весёлка (vesjólka) and Ukrainian весе́лка (vesélka).

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  • Rhymes: -oɫka
  • Hyphenation: вя‧сёл‧ка

Noun

вясёлка (vjasjólkaf inan (genitive вясёлкі, nominative plural вясёлкі, genitive plural вясёлак, relational adjective вясёлкавы)

  1. (meteorology) rainbow (a multi-colored arc-shaped band in the sky, which arises from the refraction of the sun's rays in raindrops)
    Synonym: ра́дуга (ráduha)
    • 1940 [1882], Mark Twain, translated by Janka Maŭr, Прынц і жабрак, Minsk: ДВБ, translation of The Prince and the Pauper, page 169:
      Ён адчуваў сябе, як чалавек, які вышаў палюбавацца вясёлкай, а замест таго яго ўдарыла маланка.
      Jon adčuvaŭ sjabje, jak čalavjek, jaki vyšaŭ paljubavacca vjasjólkaj, a zamjest tahó jahó ŭdaryla malanka.
      He felt like a man, who went out to enjoy a rainbow, and got struck by lightning instead.

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References

  • вясёлка”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)
  • вясёлка” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org