каравай

• корова́й (korováj) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
• корова́й (korováj) – Pre-reform orthography (1956)

Inherited from Old East Slavic короваи (korovai), from Proto-Slavic *korvajь. Cognate with Ukrainian корова́й (korováj), Bulgarian крава́й (kraváj), Serbo-Croatian кра̀ва̄ј (“type of cake fed to the bride and groom”) (genitive крава́ја), Slovene kravȃj, krávaj. Per Vasmer, probably related to коро́ва (koróva, “cow, also dialectally bride”); originally thought to have been a wedding gift that was intended to induce fertility.

• IPA^(key): [kərɐˈvaj]
• Rhymes: -aj

карава́й • (karaváj) m inan (genitive карава́я, nominative plural карава́и, genitive plural карава́ев)

1. korovai (large, single-piece round or rectangular loaf of bread, elaborately decorated and served at a wedding)

   Hypernym: хлеб (xleb)

Proverbs

• на чужо́й карава́й рот не разева́й (na čužój karaváj rot ne razeváj)

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “каравай”, 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.