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Belarusian
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic сестра (sestra), from Old Ruthenian сестра́ (sestrá), from Proto-Slavic *sestrà.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Rhymes: -a
- Hyphenation: сяс‧тра
Noun
сястра́ • (sjastrá) f pers (genitive сястры́, nominative plural сёстры, genitive plural сясцёр or сёстраў)
- sister (each of the daughters in relation to the other children of the same parents)
- Coordinate term: брат (brat)
1988, Мікола Гіль, Кім і Валерыя, Мінск: Мастацкая літаратура, →ISBN:Ле́ра была́ мне, як малодшая сястра́. Я любі́ла яе́, як сястру́. У нас не было та́йнаў.- Ljéra bylá mnje, jak malódšaja sjastrá. Ja ljubíla jajé, jak sjastrú. U nas nje byló tájnaŭ.
- Lera was like a younger sister to me. I loved her like a sister. We had no secrets from each other.
- (religion) nun
Declension
Declension of сястра́ (pr hard fem-form accent-d а-о mixed-reduc)
1Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.
Derived terms
References
- “сястра”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)
- “сястра” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org