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Macedonian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: пох‧ва‧ла
Noun
похвала • (pohvala) f (plural похвали)
- panegyric, laud (a speech or song in which something is praised)
Declension
Synonyms
- (a speech that praises, celebrates feats, and glorifies someone or something): панеги́рик m (panegírik)
References
- “похвала” in Дигитален речник на македонскиот јазик (Digitalen rečnik na makedonskiot jazik) − drmj.eu
Russian
Pronunciation
Noun
похвала́ • (poxvalá) f inan (genitive похвалы́, nominative plural похвалы́, genitive plural похва́л)
- praise
1895, Максим Горький, Однажды осенью; English translation from Robert Nisbet Bain, transl., One Autumn Night, Funk and Wagnall's, 1902:Одна маленькая похвала женщины для меня дороже целого дифирамба со стороны мужчины, будь мужчина сей красноречив, как все древние ораторы, взятые вместе.- Odna malenʹkaja poxvala ženščiny dlja menja dorože celovo difiramba so storony mužčiny, budʹ mužčina sej krasnorečiv, kak vse drevnije oratory, vzjatyje vmeste.
- Nowadays a little crumb of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole dithyramb from a man, even though he be more eloquent than all the ancient and modern orators put together.
Declension
Descendants
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pôxʋala/
- Hyphenation: по‧хва‧ла
Noun
по̏хвала f (Latin spelling pȍhvala)
- praise
Declension
Ukrainian
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
похвала́ • (poxvalá) f inan (genitive похвали́, nominative plural похвали́, genitive plural похва́л)
- praise
- (archaic) glory, pride
- (Christianity) the fifth Saturday of Lent
Declension
Declension of похвала́ (inan hard fem-form accent-b)