забота
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See also: заботя
Russian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old East Slavic зобота (zobota), from Proto-Slavic [Term?], possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gab- (“to watch, show”).[1] Cognate with Proto-West Germanic *kapēn (“to watch, to look”), Proto-Germanic *kōpijaną (“to look after, care for”) (whence English keep). Also compare Ukrainian забо́та (zabóta), Slovene zóbati.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]забо́та • (zabóta) f inan (genitive забо́ты, nominative plural забо́ты, genitive plural забо́т)
- care
- concern, anxiety, worry, trouble
- 1958, “Песня о тревожной молодости (Song of the Restless Youth)”, Lev Oshanin (lyrics), Aleksandra Pakhmutova (music)[1]:
- Забота у нас простая,
Забота наша такая:
Жила бы страна родная,
И нету других забот!- Zabota u nas prostaja,
Zabota naša takaja:
Žila by strana rodnaja,
I netu drugix zabot! - Our concern is simple;
our concern is this:
That our dear country would live,
and there are no other concerns!
- Zabota u nas prostaja,
Declension
[edit]Declension of забо́та (inan fem-form hard-stem accent-a)
Related terms
[edit]- беззабо́тный (bezzabótnyj)
- забо́тить (zabótitʹ)
- забо́титься (zabótitʹsja)
- забо́тливый (zabótlivyj)
- озабо́ченный (ozabóčennyj)
References
[edit]- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “забота”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Guus Kroonen (2013) “kap(p)on”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “349”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 349
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