юфть

Russian

Alternative forms

• юхть (juxtʹ), ю́фта (júfta), ю́хта (júxta) — till 19th century also

Etymology

Unknown, but suspected to be a Turkic borrowing of Classical Persian جفت (juft, “pair”) due to the hides having been tanned pairwise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [juftʲ]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

юфть • (juftʹ) f inan (genitive ю́фти, uncountable)

1. yuft, Russia leather

Declension

Declension of юфть (inan sg-only fem-form 3rd-decl accent-a) 

	singular
nominative	ю́фть júftʹ
genitive	ю́фти júfti
dative	ю́фти júfti
accusative	ю́фть júftʹ
instrumental	ю́фтью júftʹju
prepositional	ю́фти júfti

Derived terms

• юфтя́ный (juftjányj)
• ю́фотный (júfotnyj)

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: юфт (juft)
• → Czech: juchta
• → Finnish: juhti
• → Middle Low German: juften, juchten
  • → Dutch: jucht, (older also) jocht, juft, juften, juchten
  • → English: yuft
  • → German: Juchten, Juften
    • → Slovene: jȗhta, jȗht f, jȗft f
  • → Swedish: juft, jucht, jukt, juften, juchten
• → Polish: jucht
• → Romanian: iuft
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ју̏хта

  Latin script: jȕhta

• → Slovak: juchta
• → Ukrainian: ю́хта (júxta), юхт (juxt)