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.^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

(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.

References

^ Martynaŭ, V. U., Tsykhun, G. A., editors (1978–2017), “мурын”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka
^ Bulyka, A. M., editor (1999), “муринъ”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 18 (местце – надзовати), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 228