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Kazakh
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian труба (truba), from Proto-Slavic *trǫba.
Noun
труба • (truba)
- trumpet
Declension
See also
Macedonian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *trǫba.
Pronunciation
Noun
труба • (truba) f (diminutive трубичка)
- trumpet
Declension
Russian
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic труба (truba), from Proto-Slavic *trǫba.
Pronunciation
Noun
труба́ • (trubá) f inan (genitive трубы́, nominative plural тру́бы, genitive plural труб, relational adjective тру́бный)
- pipe
- chimney, flue
1847, Фёдор Достоевский [Fyodor Dostoevsky], “Часть первая. I”, in Хозяйка; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., The Landlady, 1914:Опя́ть прошёл он мно́го у́лиц и площаде́й. За ни́ми потяну́лись дли́нные жёлтые и се́рые забо́ры, ста́ли встреча́ться совсе́м ве́тхие избёнки вме́сто бога́тых домо́в и вме́сте с тем колосса́льные зда́ния под фа́бриками, уро́дливые, почерне́вшие, кра́сные, с дли́нными тру́бами.- Opjátʹ prošól on mnógo úlic i ploščadéj. Za ními potjanúlisʹ dlínnyje žóltyje i séryje zabóry, stáli vstrečátʹsja sovsém vétxije izbjónki vmésto bogátyx domóv i vméste s tem kolossálʹnyje zdánija pod fábrikami, uródlivyje, počernévšije, krásnyje, s dlínnymi trúbami.
- Again he passed through many streets and squares. After them stretched long fences, grey and yellow; he began to come across quite dilapidated little cottages, instead of wealthy houses, and mingled with them colossal factories, monstrous, soot-begrimed, red buildings, with long chimneys
- (music) trumpet
- (figurative) undesirable situation, seemingly hopeless (де́ло труба́)
- (colloquial) mobile phone
- (colloquial, figurative) telephone
- (hunters' lingo, dated, slang) fox tail
Declension
Descendants
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *trǫba.
Noun
тру́ба f (Latin spelling trúba)
- trumpet
Declension
Ukrainian
Etymology
From Old East Slavic труба (truba), from Proto-Slavic *trǫba.
Pronunciation
Noun
труба́ • (trubá) f inan (genitive труби́, nominative plural тру́би, genitive plural труб, relational adjective тру́бний)
- trumpet
- pipe, tube
Declension
Declension of труба́ (inan hard fem-form accent-d)
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