парсюк

• parsiuk — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *porsę.

• IPA^(key): [parˈsʲuk]

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парсю́к • (parsjúk) m animal (genitive парсюка́, nominative plural парсюкі́, genitive plural парсюко́ў, diminutive парсючо́к)

1. barrow (castrated male domestic pig)

   Synonyms: каба́н (kabán), кны́р (knýr)

   • 1916, “Chruńka”, in Vacłaŭ Łastoŭski, editor, Rodnyje zierniaty, Wilno: Homan, page 137:

     Samca damowaj świńni nazywajuć parsiukom, kabanom i knurom;

     Male domestic pig is called barrow, boar or hog;

   • 1928, Kuźma Čorny, Зямля, Менск: ДВБ, page 301:

     Чаго, пудоў каля сямі парсюк быў.

     Čahó, pudóŭ kalja sjami parsjuk byŭ.

     What'd you say, the barrow's weight was around two hundred and fifty pounds.

     (literally, “What'd you say, the barrow's weight was around seven poods”)

2. (figuratively, derogatory) pig

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