толмач

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъlmačь, from Proto-Turkic *tilmač (compare Turkish dilmaç (“interpreter”)), from Proto-Turkic *til (“tongue”) (Turkish dil) + Proto-Turkic *-mač (“noun suffix”). Cognate with Russian толма́ч (tolmáč), Slovene tolmač, Serbo-Croatian ту̀ма̄ч/tùmāč, Polish tłumacz (“translator”). Non-Slavic cognates include German Dolmetscher and Hungarian tolmács.

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• Hyphenation: тол‧мач

толмач • (tolmač) m (plural толмачи)

1. (archaic) interpreter

   Synonym: толкувач (tolkuvač)

• толмачи impf (tolmači), протолмачи pf (protolmači)

• “толмач” in Дигитален речник на македонскиот јазик (Digitalen rečnik na makedonskiot jazik) − drmj.eu

• толма́чъ (tolmáč) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъlmačь, from Proto-Turkic *tilmač (compare Turkish dilmaç (“interpreter”)), from Proto-Turkic *til (“tongue”) (Turkish dil) + Proto-Turkic *-mač (“noun suffix”). Cognate with Macedonian толмач (tolmač), Slovene tolmač, Serbo-Croatian ту̀ма̄ч/tùmāč, Polish tłumacz (“translator”). Non-Slavic cognates include German Dolmetscher and Hungarian tolmács.

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толма́ч • (tolmáč) m anim (genitive толмача́, nominative plural толмачи́, genitive plural толмаче́й)

1. (obsolete or ironic) interpreter

   Synonym: перево́дчик (perevódčik)

• толмаческий (tolmačeskij, adjective)
• толмачить (tolmačitʹ, verb)

• → Ubykh: ҭалмашь (talmaš)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “толмач”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress