бабочка
Appearance
Russian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ба́бка (bábka, “grandmother, old woman”) + -ка (-ka), originally a diminutive; from the folk belief that spirits of the dead live on as butterflies.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ба́бочка • (bábočka) f anim or f inan (genitive ба́бочки, nominative plural ба́бочки, genitive plural ба́бочек)
- (animate) butterfly
- ночна́я ба́бочка ― nočnája bábočka ― moth (literally, “night butterfly”)
- (inanimate) bowtie
- (colloquial) feisty, spirited woman
- (colloquial) prostitute, hooker
Usage notes
[edit]Russian does not divide butterflies and moths the same way English does. Russian has мотылёк (motyljók) for a kind of small moth that swarms at night, and моль (molʹ) for the moth that eats clothes, but the other moths are all ба́бочки (bábočki).
Declension
[edit]Declension of ба́бочка (bian fem-form velar-stem accent-a reduc)
singular | plural | ||
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nominative | ба́бочка bábočka |
ба́бочки bábočki | |
genitive | ба́бочки bábočki |
ба́бочек báboček | |
dative | ба́бочке bábočke |
ба́бочкам bábočkam | |
accusative | animate | ба́бочку bábočku |
ба́бочек báboček |
inanimate | ба́бочки bábočki | ||
instrumental | ба́бочкой, ба́бочкою bábočkoj, bábočkoju |
ба́бочками bábočkami | |
prepositional | ба́бочке bábočke |
ба́бочках bábočkax |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бабочка”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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