бусел

Belarusian

Etymology

Cognate with dialectal Russian бусел (busel), Ukrainian бусол (busol), dialectal Russian бусый (busyj, “dark gray”). Possibly from Turkic, compare Turkish boz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbusʲeɫ]

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Noun

бу́сел • (búsjel) m animal (genitive бу́сла, nominative plural буслы́, genitive plural бусло́ў)

1. stork

Declension

Declension of бу́сел (anml hard masc-form accent-c reduc)

	singular	plural
nominative	бу́сел búsjel	буслы́ buslý
genitive	бу́сла búsla	бусло́ў buslóŭ
dative	бу́слу búslu	бусла́м buslám
accusative	бу́сла búsla	бусло́ў buslóŭ
instrumental	бу́слам búslam	бусла́мі buslámi
locative	бу́сле búslje	бусла́х busláx
count form	—	бу́слы1 búsly1

¹Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.

References

• “бусел” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бусел”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress