дурак

Borrowed from Russian дура́к (durák), morphologically analyzable as дур (dur, “brutal, boorish”) (obsolete) +‎ -ак (-ak).

• IPA^(key): [doˈrak]

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дура́к • (durák) m (feminine дура́чка) (obsolescent)

1. boor, churl, hulk

• “дурак”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “дурак”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

• IPA^(key): [dʊˈrak]

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дура́к • (durák) m anim (genitive дурака́, nominative plural дураки́, genitive plural дурако́в, feminine ду́ра, diminutive дурачо́к or дура́шка)

1. (derogatory) fool, simpleton, idiot (stupid person with poor judgment)
   • 1834, Пётр Ершов [Pyotr Yershov], chapter I, in Конёк-горбунок, Санкт-Петербург: Библиотека для чтения; English translation from Louis Zellikoff, transl., The Little Humpbacked Horse, 1957:

     У крестья́нина три сы́на:
     Ста́рший у́мный был дети́на,
     Сре́дний сын и так и сяк,
     Мла́дший во́все был дура́к.

     U krestʹjánina tri sýna:
     Stáršij úmnyj byl detína,
     Srédnij syn i tak i sjak,
     Mládšij vóvse byl durák.

     Of his sons–and he had three,
     Th’eldest sharp was as could be;
     Second was nor dull nor bright,
     But the third–a fool all right.

2. (card games) durak (a simple card game in which the last player holding cards in their hand is the loser)

• без дурако́в (bez durakóv)

• ду́ра (dúra)
• ду́рень (dúrenʹ)
• дура́цкий (duráckij)
• дурёха (durjóxa)

• → Ingrian: durakka
• → Latgalian: duraks
• → Latvian: duraks

From дурний (durnyj) +‎ -ак (-ak)

• IPA^(key): [dʊˈrak]

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дура́к • (durák) m pers (genitive дурака́, nominative plural дураки́, genitive plural дуракі́в, female equivalent ду́ра, diminutive дурачо́к) (colloquial)

1. fool, simpleton, idiot (stupid person with poor judgment)
2. (card games) durak (a simple card game in which the last player holding cards in their hand is the loser)

• ду́рень (dúrenʹ)

• Hrinchenko, Borys, editor (1907–1909), “дура́к”, in Словарь украинского языка [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Russian), Kyiv: Kievskaya starina
• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “дурак”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Rusanivskyi, V. M., editor (2013), “дура́к”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 4 (д – жучо́к), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN