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рупор

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Russian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Dutch roeper, from roepen (to shout).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ру́пор (rúporm inan (genitive ру́пора, nominative plural ру́поры or рупора́, genitive plural ру́поров or рупоро́в, relational adjective ру́порный)

  1. megaphone
    Synonyms: громкоговори́тель (gromkogovorítelʹ), мегафо́н (megafón)
  2. (figurative) megaphone, mouthpiece (spokesman, also collective, as a newspaper, magazine, TV channel)

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Armenian: ռուպոր (ṙupor)
  • Kildin Sami: рӯпэр (rūper)

References

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “рупор”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “рупор”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 128

Further reading

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  • рупор in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru

Ukrainian

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Etymology

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Through Russian ру́пор (rúpor) from Dutch roeper, from roepen (to shout).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ру́пор (rúporm inan (genitive ру́пора, nominative plural ру́пори, genitive plural ру́порів)

  1. megaphone
  2. (figuratively) megaphone, mouthpiece, promoter

Declension

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References

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  • Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2006), “ру́пор”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 5 (Р – Т), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 145