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Russian
Etymology
Proto-Slavic *porsę (“piglet”) + -о́нок/-ёнок (-ónok/-jónok, “diminutive suffix for baby animals”). Cognate with Serbo-Croatian prȃse, Czech prase, Slovak prasa, Polish prosię, Slovene prašič, Bulgarian прасе (prase).
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- Hyphenation: по‧ро‧сё‧нок
Noun
поросёнок • (porosjónok) m anim (genitive поросёнка, nominative plural порося́та, genitive plural порося́т)
- piglet, young pig
1842, Николай Гоголь [Nikolai Gogol], “Том I, Глава IV”, in Мёртвые души; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., Dead Souls, London: Chatto & Windus, 1922:Когда́ он таки́м о́бразом разгова́ривал, ку́шая поросё́нка, кото́рого остава́лся уже́ после́дний кусо́к, послы́шался стук колё́с подъе́хавшего экипа́жа.- Kogdá on takím óbrazom razgovárival, kúšaja porosjónka, kotórovo ostaválsja užé poslédnij kusók, poslýšalsja stuk koljós podʺjéxavševo ekipáža.
- While he was talking in this way and eating the sucking-pig, of which only the last slice by now remained, he heard the rumbling wheels of an approaching carriage.
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