забыць

Belarusian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Ruthenian забы́ти (zabýti),[1] from Old East Slavic забꙑ́ти (zabýti), from Proto-Slavic *zabỳti.[2] By surface analysis, за- (za-) +‎ быць (bycʹ). Cognate with Ukrainian забу́ти (zabúty).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [zaˈbɨt͡sʲ]
  • Rhymes: -ɨt͡sʲ
  • Hyphenation: за‧быць

Verb

забы́ць • (zabýcʹpf (imperfective забыва́ць)

  1. (transitive) to forget (to stop remembering, do not save in memory)

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1990), “забыти”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 10 (жеребецъ – замена), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, →ISBN, page 99
  2. ^ Martynaŭ, V. U., editor (1985), “забы́ць”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volumes 3 (га! – інчэ́), Minsk: Navuka i technika, page 279

Further reading

  • забыць”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)
  • забыць” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org