вясёлка
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Belarusian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From вясёлы (vjasjóly) + -ка (-ka). Cognate with Russian весёлка (vesjólka) and Ukrainian весе́лка (vesélka).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]вясёлка • (vjasjólka) f inan (genitive вясёлкі, nominative plural вясёлкі, genitive plural вясёлак, relational adjective вясёлкавы)
- (meteorology) rainbow (a multi-colored arc-shaped band in the sky, which arises from the refraction of the sun's rays in raindrops)
- Synonym: ра́дуга (ráduha)
- 1940 [1882], Mark Twain, translated by Janka Maŭr, Прынц і жабрак, Minsk: ДВБ, translation of The Prince and the Pauper, page 169:
- Ён адчуваў сябе, як чалавек, які вышаў палюбавацца вясёлкай, а замест таго яго ўдарыла маланка.
- Jon adčuvaŭ sjabje, jak čalavjek, jaki vyšaŭ paljubavacca vjasjólkaj, a zamjest tahó jahó ŭdaryla malanka.
- [original: He felt much as a man might who had danced blithely out to enjoy a rainbow, and got struck by lightning.]
- He felt like a man, who went out to enjoy a rainbow, and got struck by lightning instead.
Declension
[edit]Declension of вясёлка (inan velar fem-form accent-a reduc)
singular | plural | |
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nominative | вясёлка vjasjólka |
вясёлкі vjasjólki |
genitive | вясёлкі vjasjólki |
вясёлак vjasjólak |
dative | вясёлцы vjasjólcy |
вясёлкам vjasjólkam |
accusative | вясёлку vjasjólku |
вясёлкі vjasjólki |
instrumental | вясёлкай, вясёлкаю vjasjólkaj, vjasjólkaju |
вясёлкамі vjasjólkami |
locative | вясёлцы vjasjólcy |
вясёлках vjasjólkax |
count form | — | вясёлкі1 vjasjólki1 |
1Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.
References
[edit]- “вясёлка”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)
- “вясёлка” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
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- Belarusian terms suffixed with -ка
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- Rhymes:Belarusian/oɫka
- Rhymes:Belarusian/oɫka/3 syllables
- Belarusian lemmas
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- Belarusian nouns with accent pattern a
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