язык

• jazyk — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)

Inherited from Old Ruthenian ѧзы́къ (jazýk), from Old East Slavic ѧзꙑкъ (językŭ), from Proto-Slavic *ęzykъ.

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ɨk

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• Hyphenation: язык

язы́к • (jazýk) m inan (genitive языка́, nominative plural языкі́, genitive plural языко́ў, relational adjective языко́вы, diminutive язычо́к)

1. (anatomy) tongue (organ)
2. (figuratively) speaking, speech (the ability to speak, to express one's thoughts in words)
3. clapper (of a bell)
4. (figuratively) any elongated object or tongue-like in shape

Unlike Russian which uses язы́к (jazýk) to translate both tongue and language, in Belarusian мо́ва (móva) is used to translate language.

язы́к • (jazýk) m pers (genitive языка́, nominative plural языкі́, genitive plural языко́ў)

1. (colloquial, figuratively, military slang) canary, captive, informer (a prisoner who is captured specifically to obtain the necessary information about an enemy)

• “язык”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)
• “язык” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org

• язик (jazyk)

Inherited from Old Ruthenian ѧзы́къ (jazýk), from Old East Slavic ѧзꙑкъ (językŭ), from Proto-Slavic *ęzykъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *inźūˀkas, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

• IPA^(key): /jaˈzɨk/

язы́к • (jazŷ́k) m (Zakarpattia, Prešov)

1. tongue
2. language

   Synonym: бесїда (besjida)

• язы́къ (jazýk) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
• езы́к (jezýk) (internet slang)

Inherited from Old East Slavic ѧзꙑкъ (językŭ), from Proto-Slavic *ęzykъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *inźūˀkas, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s, whence English tongue and language.

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• Rhymes: -ɨk

язы́к • (jazýk) m inan or m anim (genitive языка́, nominative plural языки́, genitive plural языко́в, relational adjective языково́й or языко́вый or язы́чный, diminutive язычо́к)

1. (inanimate) tongue

   на ко́нчике языка́ ― na kónčike jazyká ― on the tip of (one's) tongue

   У него́ язы́к без косте́й. ― U nevó jazýk bez kostéj. ― He's a big mouth / blabbermouth / waffler / rambler / talks too much. (Used to describe someone who talks a load of nonsense.) (literally, “He has a tongue without bones.”)

   • 2006, Владимир Сорокин, День опричника, Москва: Захаров; English translation from Jamey Gambrell, transl., Day of the Oprichnik, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011:

     Погода снова вокруг танцует, плечами, как девка срамная, покачивает, подмигивает, язык розовый показывает.

     Pogoda snova vokrug tancujet, plečami, kak devka sramnaja, pokačivajet, podmigivajet, jazyk rozovyj pokazyvajet.

     Pogoda dances around, mincing like a tart. He rocks back and forth, sticks out his pink tongue.

2. (inanimate) language

   ру́сский язы́к ― rússkij jazýk ― the Russian language

3. (animate, military, slang) prisoner for interrogation, canary, informer
4. (inanimate) clapper (of a bell)
5. (animate, Middle Russian, obsolete) interpreter
   • XVI-XVII century, Странник игумена Даниила (Pilgrimage of Hegumen Daniel):

     […] невъзможно бо безъ вожа ходити и безъ ꙗзыка испытати и видѣти всѣхъ тѣхъ свѧтыхъ местъ.

     […] nevʺzmožno bo bez voža xoditi i bez jazyka ispytati i viděti vsěx těx svjatyx mest.

     for it is impossible without a guide to walk or without an interpreter to see all these holy places.

• речь (rečʹ, “speech, spoken language”)

• иноязы́чный (inojazýčnyj)
• языкове́д m (jazykovéd)
• языко́вый (jazykóvyj)
• языкозна́ние n (jazykoznánije)
• язы́чник m (jazýčnik)
  • многоязы́чный (mnogojazýčnyj)
  • русскоязы́чный (russkojazýčnyj)
  • англоязы́чный (anglojazýčnyj)