грач

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грач • (grač) m

1. croak (characteristic cry of ravens and other corvids)

• грак m (grak), гра́ка f (gráka)

• гра́ча (gráča, “to caw, to crook”)

• “грач”, in Речник на българския език (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “грач”, in Речник на българския език (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

• грачъ (grač) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Originally Russian word formed from the onomatopoeia гра (gra) +‎ -ач (-ač). Cf. ка́ркать (kárkatʹ) and other similar words with onomatopoeic origin, such as Ukrainian грак (hrak, “rook”) and крук (kruk, “raven”).

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грач • (grač) m anim (genitive грача́, nominative plural грачи́, genitive plural граче́й)

1. rook (a black bird whose large flocks signal the arrival of spring)

• грач in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru

Inherited from Old Ruthenian грачъ, кграчъ (hrač, grač), from Proto-Slavic *jьgračь. By surface analysis, гра́ти (hráty) +‎ -ач (-ač).

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грач • (hrač) m pers (genitive грача́, nominative plural грачі́, genitive plural грачі́в)

1. player, gamer (one who plays any game)

   Synonyms: граве́ць (hravécʹ), грець (hrecʹ), картя́р (kartjár)

2. (rare, music) player (one who plays on a musical instrument)

   Synonyms: музика́нт (muzykánt), музи́ка (muzýka), граве́ць (hravécʹ), грець (hrecʹ), оркестра́нт (orkestránt), викона́вець (vykonávecʹ)

• ні грач, ні помага́ч (ni hrač, ni pomaháč)