мурын

Belarusian

Alternative forms

• muryn — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Ruthenian муринъ (murin), from Old Polish murzyn, from Old High German môr, from Latin maurus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [muˈrɨn]
• Rhymes: -ɨn
• Hyphenation: му‧рын

Noun

муры́н • (murýn) m pers (genitive муры́на, nominative plural муры́ны, genitive plural муры́наў, feminine муры́нка)

1. (obsolete) Arab, Moor, Negro (black or dark brown in color)
   • 1892 [1834], Аляксандр Ельскі, Pan Tadeusz, Lviv: U drukarni ludówaj pod upr. St. Baỳlaho, translation of Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz (in Polish), page 39:

     Jak zamczaǔ Jabłanoǔski tam dziе piеrac rasciè,
     Hdziе robiać cukiar i u wiеcznaj wiaśniе
     Cwitùć lasỳ pachuczy, hdziе z lеgjaj Dunaju
     Wodz nasz murỳnaǔ hromić i tensknić da kraju.

     [original: Jak Jabłonowski zabiegł aż kędy pieprz rośnie,
     Gdzie się cukier wytapia, i gdzie w wiecznéj wiośnie
     Pachnące kwitną lasy; z legią Dunaju
     Tam wódz murzyny gromi, a wzdycha do kraju.]

     Jabłonowski invaded the land where the pepper grows,
     Where sugar is produced and where in eternal spring
     Fragrant forests bloom, where with the Danube Legion
     Our warlord is smiting the Negroes but longing for home.

   • 1914, Piotra Prosty, Na szto Biełarusam hazety?, Wilno: Wydańnie „Biełarusa“, page 8:

     Jak hlanisz na ich, na hety strasznyja liczby, dyk aż strach robicca padumać, szto z nami budzie, kali tak dalej pojdzie, i aż wieryć nia choczecca, szto my żywiom u cywilzawanaj Eŭropie, a nia dzie nibudź siarod murynaŭ, ci ludajedaŭ!

     When looking at them, at these terrifying numbers, it becomes scary to think what's going to happen to us if things keep going this way, and it's even hard to believe that we live in the civilized Europe, rather than somewhere among the Negroes or cannibals!

   • 1937, Міхась Клімковіч, “Кацярына Жарнасек”, in Драматычныя паэмы, Мінск: ДВБ, published 1947, page 280:

     І вось дзень радзін настае, як дзень судны.
     Адточаны меч пан паклаў каля ложка:
     Калі на мурына падобны хоць трошкі
     Дзіцёнак той будзе, — засне непрабудна
     Дзіця й парадзіха.

     I vosʹ dzjenʹ radzin nastaje, jak dzjenʹ sudny.
     Adtóčany mječ pan paklaŭ kalja lóžka:
     Kali na muryna padóbny xocʹ tróški
     Dzicjónak toj budzje, — zasnje njeprabudna
     Dzicja j paradzixa.

     And now the birth time is coming, like the Judgment Day.
     The husband has put a sharpened sword by the bed:
     If even the smallest resemblance to a Negro
     The baby would have, then eternal sleep awaits
     Both the child and the mother.

Declension

Declension of муры́н (pr hard masc-form accent-a)

	singular	plural
nominative	муры́н murýn	муры́ны murýny
genitive	муры́на murýna	муры́наў murýnaŭ
dative	муры́ну murýnu	муры́нам murýnam
accusative	муры́на murýna	муры́наў murýnaŭ
instrumental	муры́нам murýnam	муры́намі murýnami
locative	муры́не murýnje	муры́нах murýnax
count form	—	муры́ны1 murýny1

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

Further reading

• “мурын”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)
• “мурын” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org