юбка
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Russian
Etymology
Related to Old French jupe and Old Italian jupa, compare French jupe. Ultimately from Arabic جُبَّة (jubba). Doublet of жупа́н (župán), зипу́н (zipún), and шу́ба (šúba). Also doublet of дже́мпер (džémper).
Pronunciation
Noun
ю́бка • (júbka) f anim or f inan (genitive ю́бки, nominative plural ю́бки, genitive plural ю́бок, relational adjective ю́бочный, diminutive ю́бочка)
- skirt (part of clothing, especially woman's)
- 1898, Александр Куприн [Aleksandr I. Kuprin], “III”, in Олеся; English translation from John Middleton Murry, transl., The Witch (Olyessia), 1916:
- Кра́сная ю́бка Оле́си, слегка́ коле́блемая ве́тром, ещё́ видне́лась на крыльце́ ха́ты, выделя́ясь я́рким пятно́м на ослепи́тельно бе́лом, ро́вном фо́не сне́га.
- Krásnaja júbka Olési, slexká koléblemaja vétrom, ješčó vidnélasʹ na krylʹcé xáty, vydeljájasʹ járkim pjatnóm na oslepítelʹno bélom, róvnom fóne snéga.
- Olyessia’s red skirt, fluttering in the wind, could still be seen on the steps of the hut, a spot of bright colour on the smooth and blinding background of the snow.
- (disparagingly, animate) woman (as an object of a man's interest)
- Он волочи́тся за ка́ждой ю́бкой.
- On voločítsja za káždoj júbkoj.
- He follows every skirt (woman).
Declension
Declension of ю́бка (bian fem-form velar-stem accent-a reduc)
Pre-reform declension of ю́бка (bian fem-form velar-stem accent-a reduc)
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: yubka
- → Mingrelian: იუკა (iuḳa)
- → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܝܘܼܦܩܵܐ (yupqā)
- → Urum: йупка (jupka)
- → Uyghur: يۇپقا (yupqa)
- → Votic: jupkõ
- → Yakut: дьууппа (juuppa)
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “юбка”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “юбка”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 457
- Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “юбка”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
- Krylov, G. A. (2004) “юбка”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Victory, →ISBN
Further reading
- юбка in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru