папугай

Belarusian

Alternative forms

• papuhaj — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian попуга́й (popugáj).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [papuˈɣaj]

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• Rhymes: -aj
• Hyphenation: па‧пу‧гай

Noun

папуга́й • (papuháj) m animal (genitive папуга́я, nominative plural папуга́і, genitive plural папуга́яў)

1. parrot
2. (colloquial, figuratively, sometimes offensive) parrot, parroter (a person who does not have their own point of view, always repeating other people's words and thoughts)

Declension

Declension of папуга́й (anml soft masc-form accent-a)

	singular	plural
nominative	папуга́й papuháj	папуга́і papuhái
genitive	папуга́я papuhája	папуга́яў papuhájaŭ
dative	папуга́ю papuháju	папуга́ям papuhájam
accusative	папуга́я papuhája	папуга́яў papuhájaŭ
instrumental	папуга́ем papuhájem	папуга́ямі papuhájami
locative	папуга́і papuhái	папуга́ях papuhájax
count form	—	папуга́і1 papuhái1

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

Further reading

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