нары

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish نار (nâr).

• IPA^(key): [naːrə]

нары • (narə)

1. pomegranate

• IPA^(key): [ˈnarɨ]

Uncertain. Cognate with Ukrainian на́ри (náry), Polish nary.

на́ры • (náry) f inan pl (genitive нар, plural only)

1. plank bed (often used in prisons), bunk
   • 1899, Лев Толстой [Leo Tolstoy], “Часть I. Глава XXXI”, in Воскресенье; English translation from Louise Maude, transl., Resurrection, 1901:

     Она́ сняла́ очки́ и положи́ла своё шитьё ря́дом на на́ры.

     Oná snjalá očkí i položíla svojó šitʹjó rjádom na náry.

     She took off her spectacles and put her work down beside her on the shelf bed.

2. (metonymic, colloquial) prison, jail

   На Кана́рах — лу́чше, чем на на́рах. ― Na Kanárax — lúčše, čem na nárax. ― It's better to retire and leave the country than go to prison. (literally, “It's better to be on the Canaries than in prison.”)

• ⇒ Buryat: наар (naar)
• → Yakut: наара (naara)

на́ры • (náry) m anim pl

1. nominative plural of нар (nar)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “нары”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress