вертеп

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic врьтьпъ (vrĭtĭpŭ, “cave, garden”), instead of expected *вертёп (*vertjóp), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *vьrtъpъ. Compare Ukrainian верте́п (vertép), Bulgarian върто́п (vǎrtóp, “whirlpool”), Slovene vrtèp. Per Vasmer, possibly related to Bulgarian врът (vrǎt, “vegetable garden”), Serbo-Croatian вр̏т (“garden”) as well as Lithuanian vérti (“to lock”) (1sg. veriù), Tocharian B warto (“garden, grove”) (also wärto), Old English weorð (“house fence”) (also worð).

• IPA^(key): [vʲɪrˈtʲep]

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верте́п • (vertép) m inan (genitive верте́па, nominative plural верте́пы, genitive plural верте́пов)

1. (archaic or biblical) cave, hideout
2. (somewhat dated, figuratively) den, lair (especially of criminals or vice)
3. (somewhat dated, figuratively) slum
4. (dated, Ukraine) large box for puppets displaying nativity scenes or comic scenes
5. (dated, figurative) performance of such puppets

• верте́пный (vertépnyj)
• верте́пник (vertépnik)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “вертеп”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “вертеп”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 144
• Shansky, N. M., editor (1968), “вертеп”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1, number 3 (В), Moscow: Moscow University Press, page 65
• Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “вертеп”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
• Krylov, G. A. (2004) “вертеп”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Victory, →ISBN
• Anikin, A. E. (2012) “вертеп I”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 6 (вал – вершок), Moscow: LRC, Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 331

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *vьrtъpъ.

• IPA^(key): [ʋerˈtɛp]

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верте́п • (vertép) m inan (genitive верте́пу, nominative plural верте́пи, genitive plural верте́пів)

1. (archaic) cave, hideout
2. large box for puppets displaying nativity scenes or comic scenes
3. (figuratively) den, lair (especially of criminals or vice)

• верте́пний (vertépnyj)
• верте́пник (vertépnyk)

• Rusanivskyi, V. M., editor (2012), “верте́п”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 2 (в – відсрібли́тися), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN