нужда

Inherited from Old Church Slavonic ноужда (nužda), from Proto-Slavic *nuďa.

• IPA^(key): [ˈnuʒdɐ]

ну́жда • (núžda) f

1. need

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): [noʒˈda]

нужда́ • (nuždá)

1. second-person singular aorist indicative of нужда́я се (nuždája se)
2. third-person singular aorist indicative of нужда́я се (nuždája se)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *nuďa.

• IPA^(key): [ˈnuʒda]

нужда • (nužda) f (relational adjective нужен)

1. necessity
2. (euphemistic) need to go the bathroom

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic ноужда (nužda), from Proto-Slavic *nuďa. Displaced the inherited East Slavic form нужа (nuža).

• IPA^(key): [nʊʐˈda]

• Audio:

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нужда́ • (nuždá) f inan (genitive нужды́, nominative plural ну́жды, genitive plural нужд)

1. need, want, request
2. need, indigence

• потре́бность (potrébnostʹ), необходи́мость (neobxodímostʹ)
• бе́дность (bédnostʹ), нищета́ (niščetá)

• нужда́ться (nuždátʹsja)

From Old Church Slavonic ноужда (nužda), likely via Russian нужда (nužda), from Proto-Slavic *nuďa.

• IPA^(key): /nûʒda/
• Hyphenation: нуж‧да

ну̏жда f (Latin spelling nȕžda)

1. need
2. necessity

• “нужда”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic ноужда (nužda), from Proto-Slavic *nuďa. Displaced the inherited East Slavic form ну́жа (núža). Doublet of ну́жа (núža, “lice; flies”) (obsolete).^[1]

• нужда́: IPA^(key): [nʊʒˈda]
• ну́жда: IPA^(key): [ˈnuʒdɐ] (rare)

• Audio; “нужда́” (“nuždá”):

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нужда́ or ну́жда¹ • (nuždá or núžda¹) f inan (genitive нужди́ or ну́жди¹, uncountable) (¹Rare.)

1. need, neediness, indigence, privation, want (lack of means of subsistence)

   Synonyms: неста́тки m pl (nestátky), скру́та f (skrúta), бі́дність f (bídnistʹ), біднота́ f (bidnotá), зли́дні m pl (zlýdni), убо́гість f (ubóhistʹ)

2. (rare) need (requirement for something)

   Synonyms: потре́ба f (potréba), необхі́дність f (neobxídnistʹ)

3. (dialectal) synonym of біда́ f (bidá, “misfortune, trouble”)

• Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2019), “нужда”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 10 (на́ступ – о́бміль), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
• “нужда”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1974), “нужда”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 5 (Н – О), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 453
• A. Rysin, V. Starko, Yu. Marchenko, O. Telemko, et al. (compilers, 2007–2022), “нужда”, in Russian-Ukrainian Dictionaries
• A. Rysin, V. Starko, et al. (compilers, 2011–2020), “нужда”, in English–Ukrainian Dictionaries
• “нужда”, in Kyiv Dictionary (in English)
• “нужда”, in Словник.ua [Slovnyk.ua] (in Ukrainian)