пук
Russian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [puk]
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic поукъ (pukŭ), from Proto-Slavic *pǫkъ, from Proto-Indo-European *pank-. Compare Ukrainian пук (puk), Czech puk, Polish pęk.
Further cognates, per Vasmer, are Persian پنگ (pang, “date palm cluster”) and Latin pānus (“millet ear”).
Noun
пук • (puk) m inan (genitive пу́ка, nominative plural пуки́, genitive plural пуко́в)
- wisp, bunch, bundle, tuft
- 1925, Михаил Булгаков [Mikhail Bulgakov], chapter 2, in Собачье сердце; English translation from Avril Pyman, transl., Heart of a Dog, Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1990:
- Пёс дрема́л, тошнота́ прошла́, пёс наслажда́лся ути́хшим бо́ком и тепло́м, да́же всхрапну́л и успе́л уви́деть кусо́чек прия́тного сна: бу́дто бы он вы́рвал у совы́ це́лый пук пе́рьев из хвоста́...
- Pjos dremál, tošnotá prošlá, pjos naslaždálsja utíxšim bókom i teplóm, dáže vsxrapnúl i uspél uvídetʹ kusóček prijátnovo sna: búdto by on výrval u sový célyj puk pérʹjev iz xvostá...
- The dog dozed off again, he no longer felt sick, he was luxuriating in the absence of pain in his flank and the warmth and even gave a little snore and dreamt a fragment of an agreeable dream in which he managed to pull a whole bunch of feathers from the tale of that owl ...
Declension
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Etymology 2
Noun
пук • (puk) m inan (genitive пу́ка, nominative plural пу́ки, genitive plural пу́ков)
Declension
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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From earlier *puok, from older плк, from Proto-Slavic *pъlkъ, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *fulkaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pûːk/
Noun
пу̑к m inan (Latin spelling pȗk)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | пу̑к | пу́кови / пу̑ци |
| genitive | пу̑ка | пу́кова / пу̑ка̄ |
| dative | пу̑ку | пу́ковима / пу̑цима |
| accusative | пу̑к | пу́кове / пу̑ке |
| vocative | пу̑че | пу́кови / пу̑ци |
| locative | пу̑ку | пу́ковима / пу̑цима |
| instrumental | пу̑ком | пу́ковима / пу̑цима |