ковёр
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- ковёръ (kovjór) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
Etymology
[edit]Usually explained as an early Turkic borrowing (< Proto-Turkic *köbüŕ). Compare Slovak and Czech koberec, Polish kobierzec, archaic Bulgarian губер (guber).
Mikkola, quoted by Vasmer and Karl Brugmann,[1] derives the Russian word from Old Norse kǫgurr (“quilt”).[2] This derivation is difficult for phonetic and semantic reasons and fails to explain the Czech and Bulgarian cognates.
Unrelated to English cover or French couvert.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ковёр • (kovjór) m inan (genitive ковра́, nominative plural ковры́, genitive plural ковро́в, relational adjective ковро́вый, diminutive ко́врик)
- rug, carpet
- 1820, Александр Пушкин, “Песнь первая”, in Руслан и Людмила; English translation from Roger Clarke, transl., Ruslan and Ludmila, 2005–17:
- Свершились милые надежды,
Любви готовятся дары;
Падут ревнивые одежды
На цареградские ковры…- Sveršilisʹ milyje nadeždy,
Ljubvi gotovjatsja dary;
Padut revnivyje odeždy
Na caregradskije kovry… - Their dreams of fondness were fulfilled,
all that love offered now was ready.
Garments, resented and resentful,
dropped down upon Byzantine rugs…
- Sveršilisʹ milyje nadeždy,
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- ковёрный (kovjórnyj)
- подковёрный (podkovjórnyj)
- подковёрная борьба́ (podkovjórnaja borʹbá)
- подковёрный (podkovjórnyj)
- ковро́вая бомбардиро́вка (kovróvaja bombardiróvka)
Related terms
[edit]- ковёр-самолёт (kovjór-samoljót)
- ковроли́н (kovrolín)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Mémoires de la société néo-philologique à Helsingfors I., S. 8, cited in Indogermanische Forschungen, Brugmann: „Unter dem Titel Etymologisches weist Mikkola einige neue germanische Wörter im Finnischen nach und deutet slav. kovъrъ (Teppich) aus anord. kögurr.“
- ^ Jahresbericht über die Erscheinungen auf dem Gebiete der germanischen Philologie, B. 7, S. 23: „slav. kovъrъ Teppich; an kögurr id“
Further reading
[edit]- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ковер”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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