шантрапа

Russian

The origin is uncertain. Originally a dialectal word.

Perhaps connected with Old Czech šantrok, šаntrосha (“cheater”), from Middle High German santrocke (“fraud”).^[1]^[2]

Alternatively, from French chantera pas (“will not sing”), said about serfs' children which were not chosen for the landowner's choir.^[3]

шантрапа́ • (šantrapá) m anim or f anim (genitive шантрапы́, nominative plural шантрапы́, genitive plural шантра́п)

Declension of шантрапа́ (anim fem-form hard-stem accent-b)

	singular	plural
nominative	шантрапа́ šantrapá	шантрапы́ šantrapý
genitive	шантрапы́ šantrapý	шантра́п šantráp
dative	шантрапе́ šantrapé	шантрапа́м šantrapám
accusative	шантрапу́ šantrapú	шантра́п šantráp
instrumental	шантрапо́й, шантрапо́ю šantrapój, šantrapóju	шантрапа́ми šantrapámi
prepositional	шантрапе́ šantrapé	шантрапа́х šantrapáx

^ Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “шантрапа”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
^ Matzenauer, Antonín (1870) “šantrok”, in Cizí slova ve slovanských řečech [Foreign words in Slavic languages] (in Czech), Brno: Matica Moravská, page 318
^ Jepiškin, N. I. (2010) “шантрапа”, in Istoričeskij slovarʹ gallicizmov russkovo jazyka [Historical Dictionary of Russian Gallicisms] (in Russian), Moscow: ETS