огромный

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Russian

Etymology

Cognate with Czech ohromný, Slovak ohromný, Polish ogromny, Macedonian огромен (ogromen), Bulgarian огро́мен (ogrómen), Slovene ogromen, Serbo-Croatian о̏гро̄ман / ȍgrōman.

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Adjective

огро́мный (ogrómnyj)

  1. huge, vast, enormous
    Synonyms: грома́дный (gromádnyj), гига́нтский (gigántskij)

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Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “огромный”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress