выдра

From Middle Belarusian выдра (vydra), from Old East Slavic выдра (vydra), from Proto-Slavic *vydra, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ūdrāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *udréh₂, the feminine form of *udrós.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɨdra]

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вы́дра • (výdra) f animal (genitive вы́дры, nominative plural вы́дры, genitive plural вы́драў)

1. otter

• “выдра” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org

From Old East Slavic выдра (vydra), from Proto-Slavic *vydra, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ūdrāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *udréh₂, the feminine form of *udrós, whence English otter and Sanskrit उद्र (udra). Doublet of ги́дра (gídra), which was borrowed from Greek.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɨdrə]

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вы́дра • (výdra) f anim (genitive вы́дры, nominative plural вы́дры, genitive plural выдр, relational adjective вы́дряный or вы́дровый, diminutive вы́дрочка)

1. otter (mammal)
2. (derogatory) mean, ugly woman

• вода́ f (vodá)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “выдра”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “выдра”, 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 173

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “выдра”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.