куль

See also: кӯль and Appendix:Variations of "kul"

Russian

Etymology

Germanic borrowings in the 16th century:

Identical at least in a dressing-sense to German Kugel (“cowl”), together with Ukrainian куль (kulʹ), Belarusian куль (kulʹ), Polish kul, all with meanings partially or wholly identical with the Russian, compare the extension of a meaning “hood covering anything” in German Schlappen, and:

Also identifiable with German Keule and Kugel, note in particular Old Norse kýll, kýl (“bag”) (whence modern Icelandic kýla (“to stuff, to fill, to bag”)), and generally used borrowings Lithuanian kūlỹs (“bundle”), Latvian kūlis (“bundle”), and:

The cod-end of a fishing-net, on the other hand, can be understood as (the related) German Kuhle, Dutch kuil.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [kulʲ]

Noun

куль • (kulʹ) m inan (genitive куля́, nominative plural кули́, genitive plural куле́й, relational adjective кулево́й, diminutive кулёк)

sack
Synonym: мешо́к (mešók)
(archaic, dialectal) a cowl or hood
(archaic, dialectal) a bundle of straw or twigs
(archaic, dialectal) a cod end of a trawling net

Declension

Declension of куль (inan masc-form soft-stem accent-b)

	singular	plural
nominative	ку́ль kúlʹ	кули́ kulí
genitive	куля́ kuljá	куле́й kuléj
dative	кулю́ kuljú	куля́м kuljám
accusative	ку́ль kúlʹ	кули́ kulí
instrumental	кулём kuljóm	куля́ми kuljámi
prepositional	куле́ kulé	куля́х kuljáx

Descendants

→ German: Kule f, Kulle f, Kull m, Kuhl m, Kul f
→ Ingrian: kuli, kulja
→ Yakut: куул (kuul)

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Филин, Ф. П., editor (1980), “куль”, in Slovarʹ russkix narodnyx govorov [Dictionary of Russian Dialects] (in Russian), volume 16, Leningrad: Nauka, Leningrad branch, page 72
Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1989), “куль”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 3 (Кора – М), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 136
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “куль”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress