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Etymology
Borrowed from Russian кровать (krovatʹ)
Noun
кровать (krowat’)
- bed
References
Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Byzantine Greek κρεβάτιον (krebátion), from Ancient Greek κράββατος (krábbatos). See also Modern Greek κρεβάτι (kreváti), Serbo-Croatian krevet.
Pronunciation
Noun
крова́ть • (krovátʹ) f inan (genitive крова́ти, nominative plural крова́ти, genitive plural крова́тей, diminutive крова́тка)
- bed
- Synonym: посте́ль (postélʹ)
- де́тская крова́ть ― détskaja krovátʹ ― crib (literally, “child's bed”)
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кровать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress