праз
Belarusian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *perz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [pras]
Audio: (file)
Preposition
праз • (praz) (+ accusative case)
- across, over (from one side to the other of)
- through
- Synonym: скрозь (skrozʹ)
- via
- because of, due to
- Synonym: з-за (z-za)
- 1938 [1848], Charles Dickens, anonymous translator, Домбі і сын, Minsk: ДВБ, translation of Dombey and Son, page 510:
- — Навошта вы перапыняеце хлапца, місіс Браун? Праз вас у мяне ўсё выскачыла з галавы.
- — Navóšta vy pjerapynjajecje xlapca, misis Braun? Praz vas u mjanje wsjo vyskačyla z halavy.
- [original: "How you do take up a cove, Misses Brown! You’ve put it all out of my head again."]
- "Why do you interrupt a fellow, Mrs. Brown? Because of you, it's all gone out of my head."
Further reading
- “праз” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
- "праз" in Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984) at Verbum
Bulgarian
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [pras]
Audio (Standard Bulgarian): (file) - Rhymes: -as
Noun
праз • (praz) m
- leek (singular only) (A type of onion with a long cylindrical stem, white to light long layered leaves and with a slightly spicy taste. Allium porrum.)
- ram (dialectal) (male sheep)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| indefinite | праз praz |
пра́зове prázove |
| definite (subject form) |
пра́зът prázǎt |
пра́зовете prázovete |
| definite (object form) |
пра́за práza | |
| count form | — | пра́за práza |
References
- “праз”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “праз”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
Macedonian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *prazъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [pras]
Noun
праз • (praz) m
Declension
| singular | |
|---|---|
| indefinite | праз (praz) |
| definite unspecified | празот (prazot) |
| definite proximal | празов (prazov) |
| definite distal | празон (prazon) |
| vocative | празу (prazu) |