одеколон

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Bulgarian

Etymology

From French eau de Cologne, possibly via Russian одеколо́н (odekolón).

Pronunciation

Noun

одеколо́н (odekolónm

  1. eau de Cologne; cologne.

Declension

Declension of одеколо́н
singular plural
indefinite одеколо́н
odekolón
одеколо́нове
odekolónove
definite
(subject form)
одеколо́нът
odekolónǎt
одеколо́новете
odekolónovete
definite
(object form)
одеколо́на
odekolóna
count form одеколо́на
odekolóna

References

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

Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from French eau de Cologne.

Pronunciation

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Noun

одеколо́н (odekolónm inan (genitive одеколо́на, nominative plural одеколо́ны, genitive plural одеколо́нов)

  1. cologne, eau de Cologne
    • 1937, Иван Бунин, Кавказ; English translation from Hugh Aplin, transl., The Caucasus, Oneworld Classics, 2008:
      Утром, когда я вышел в коридор, в нём было солнечно, душно, из уборных пахло мылом, одеколоном и всем, чем пахнет людный вагон утром.
      Utrom, kogda ja vyšel v koridor, v njom bylo solnečno, dušno, iz ubornyx paxlo mylom, odekolonom i vsem, čem paxnet ljudnyj vagon utrom.
      In the morning, when I went out into the corridor, it was sunny and stuffy; from the toilets came the smell of soap, eau de cologne and everything a carriage full of people smells of in the morning.

Declension

Descendants

Ukrainian

Etymology

Borrowed from French eau de Cologne.

Pronunciation

Noun

одеколо́н (odekolónm inan (genitive одеколо́ну, nominative plural одеколо́ни, genitive plural одеколо́нів)

  1. cologne, eau de Cologne

Declension

Declension of одеколо́н
(inan hard masc-form accent-a)
singular plural
nominative одеколо́н
odekolón
одеколо́ни
odekolóny
genitive одеколо́ну
odekolónu
одеколо́нів
odekolóniv
dative одеколо́нові, одеколо́ну
odekolónovi, odekolónu
одеколо́нам
odekolónam
accusative одеколо́н
odekolón
одеколо́ни
odekolóny
instrumental одеколо́ном
odekolónom
одеколо́нами
odekolónamy
locative одеколо́ні
odekolóni
одеколо́нах
odekolónax
vocative одеколо́не
odekolóne
одеколо́ни
odekolóny

Further reading

  • Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2010–2025), “одеколон”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. (in Ukrainian), volumes 1–15 (а – п'ять), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka; Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN