сортир
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- сорти́ръ (sortír) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]сорти́р • (sortír) m inan (genitive сорти́ра, nominative plural сорти́ры, genitive plural сорти́ров)
- (slang) john, toilet
- 1997, Александр Коржаков [Alexander Korzhakov], “А когда кончился наркоз...”, in Борис Ельцин: от рассвета до заката, Москва: Интербук; English translation from Boris Yeltsin: From Dawn to Dusk, (Please provide a date or year):
- В нос уда́рил специфи́ческий за́пах — смесь больни́чного спё́ртого во́здуха и вокза́льного сорти́ра.
- V nos udáril specifíčeskij zápax — smesʹ bolʹníčnovo spjórtovo vózduxa i vokzálʹnovo sortíra.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (slang) a position of loss in checkers (draughts) when a player has no valid move remaining (in Russian it is called a loss by being locked in the toilet [запереть в сортире], see #1)
Declension
[edit]Declension of сорти́р (inan masc-form hard-stem accent-a)
References
[edit]- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “сортир”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Krysin, L. M. (2006) “сортир”, in Tolkovyj slovarʹ inojazyčnyx slov [Explanatory Dictionary of Foreign Words] (in Russian), Moscow: Eksmo
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- ru:Toilet (room)