кобылка

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Old Ruthenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic кобꙑлъка (kobylŭka), from Proto-Slavic *kobylъka, from *kobyla.

Noun

кобылка (kobylkaf animal

  1. diminutive of кобы́ла (kobýla, mare)
  2. locust, grasshopper
  3. filly (young female horse)

Descendants

  • Belarusian: кабы́лка (kabýlka) (dialectal)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: кобы́лка (kobŷ́lka)
  • Ukrainian: коби́лка (kobýlka) (dialectal)

Further reading

  • Bulyka, A. M., editor (1996), “кобылка”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 15 (катъ – коречный), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 165
  • Voitiv, H. V., editor (2008), “кобылка, кобилка”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 14 (к – конъюрация), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 154

Russian

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic кобꙑлъка (kobylŭka), from Proto-Slavic *kobylъka. By surface analysis, кобы́ла (kobýla) +‎ -ка (-ka).

For the semantic evolution “(small) horse” > “bridge of a stringed instrument”, compare to French chevalet and Portuguese cavalete, and further afield, Persian خرک (xarak) and Japanese (こま, koma).

Pronunciation

Noun

кобы́лка (kobýlkaf anim (genitive кобы́лки, nominative plural кобы́лки, genitive plural кобы́лок)

  1. filly (young female horse)
    Synonym: жеребёнок-са́мка (žerebjónok-sámka)
  2. (figuratively) workhorse (dependable hard worker)
    Synonym: трудя́га (trudjága)
  3. locust, grasshopper
  4. (music) bridge (of a stringed instrument)

Declension