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Russian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dyra.
Pronunciation
Noun
дыра́ • (dyrá) f inan (genitive дыры́, nominative plural ды́ры, genitive plural дыр, diminutive ды́рка)
- hole
- Synonyms: ды́рка (dýrka), отве́рстие (otvérstije), проре́ха (proréxa), углубле́ние (uglublénije)
1925, Михаил Булгаков [Mikhail Bulgakov], “Глава 8. История в совхозе”, in Роковые яйца; English translation from K. M. Cook-Horujy, transl., The Fateful Eggs, Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1990:Он задра́л го́лову и посмотре́л туда́, где в стекля́нном переплё́те кры́ши бы́ло не́сколько широ́ких дыр.- On zadrál gólovu i posmotrél tudá, gde v stekljánnom perepljóte krýši býlo néskolʹko širókix dyr.
- He threw back his head and looked at some big holes in the glass roof.
- (colloquial) backwater, out-of-the-way place
- Synonyms: захолу́стье (zaxolústʹje), глухома́нь (gluxománʹ), за́дница (zádnica), глуби́нка (glubínka)
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