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Russian
Etymology
по- (po-) + меша́ться (mešátʹsja)
Pronunciation
Verb
помеша́ться • (pomešátʹsja) pf
- to go crazy
1875, Фёдор Достоевский , “Часть 1. Глава 2. I”, in Подросток; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., The Raw Youth, London: Heinemann, 1916:Ему́, впро́чем, бы́ло не бо́лее шести́десяти. Тут вы́шла це́лая исто́рия. Го́да полтора́ наза́д с ним вдруг случи́лся припа́док; он куда́-то пое́хал и в доро́ге помеша́лся, так что произо́шло не́что вро́де сканда́ла, о кото́ром в Петербу́рге поговори́ли.- Jemú, vpróčem, býlo ne bóleje šestídesjati. Tut výšla célaja istórija. Góda poltorá nazád s nim vdrug slučílsja pripádok; on kudá-to pojéxal i v doróge pomešálsja, tak što proizóšlo néčto vróde skandála, o kotórom v Peterbúrge pogovoríli.
- He was not more than sixty, however, but there had been a great to-do with him a year and a half before, when he suddenly had a fit. He was travelling somewhere and went mad on the way, so there was something of a scandal of which people talked in Petersburg.
- (colloquial) to be obsessed with, to be a nut about
Conjugation
Conjugation of помеша́ться (class 1a perfective reflexive)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Armenian: խանգարվել (xangarvel) (semantic loan)