гмах

Belarusian

Alternative forms

• ґмах (gmax) — Taraškievica orthography
• gmach, hmach — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Ruthenian кгмахъ (gmax). Compare German Gemach and Polish gmach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡmax]
• IPA^(key): [ɣmax]

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Noun

гмах • (hmax) m inan (genitive гма́ху, nominative plural гма́хі, genitive plural гма́хаў)

1. edifice, large high-rise building

   Hypernym: буды́нак (budýnak)

2. (figurative) a big and majestic thing

   Synonym: грама́да (hramáda)

Declension

Declension of гмах (inan velar masc-form accent-a)

	singular	plural
nominative	гмах hmax	гма́хі hmáxi
genitive	гма́ху hmáxu	гма́хаў hmáxaŭ
dative	гма́ху hmáxu	гма́хам hmáxam
accusative	гмах hmax	гма́хі hmáxi
instrumental	гма́хам hmáxam	гма́хамі hmáxami
locative	гма́ху hmáxu	гма́хах hmáxax
count form	—	гма́хі1 hmáxi1

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

References

• “гмах”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)
• “гмах” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
• Bulyka, A. M., editor (1996), “кгмахъ”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 15 (катъ – коречный), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 54