смерч

Inherited from Old East Slavic смьрьчь (smĭrĭčĭ, “cloud”). Cognates include сморка́ть (smorkátʹ, “to blow one's nose”), морок (morok, “darkness, cloud, fog”) and мрак (mrak, “darkness”).

• IPA^(key): [smʲert͡ɕ]

смерч • (smerč) m inan (genitive сме́рча or смерча́, nominative plural сме́рчи or смерчи́, genitive plural сме́рчей or смерче́й)

1. (meteorology) tornado, twister, whirlwind

   Synonym: торна́до n (tornádo)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “смерч”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “смерч”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 179
• Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “смерч”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
• Krylov, G. A. (2004) “смерч”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Victory, →ISBN
• Tsyhanenko, H. P. (1989) “смерч”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Kyiv: Radjanska shkola, →ISBN, page 386
• Shaposhnikov, A. K. (2010) “смерч”, in Этимологический словарь современного русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Contemporary Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 2: (Начать – Я), Moscow: Flinta; Nauka, →ISBN, page 338

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

Inherited from Old East Slavic смьрьчь (smĭrĭčĭ, “cloud”). Cognate with мо́рок (mórok, “darkness, gloom”).

• IPA^(key): [smɛrt͡ʃ]

смерч • (smerč) m inan (genitive сме́рчу, nominative plural сме́рчі, genitive plural сме́рчів)

1. tornado, twister
2. (figurative) whirlwind