табун
Russian
Alternative forms
- табу́нъ (tabún) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
Etymology
A Turkic borrowing: compare Tatar табын (tabın), Kazakh табын (tabyn), Crimean Tatar tabın, dialectal Azerbaijani tabın. Akin to Georgian თაბუნი (tabuni), Armenian թաբուն (tʻabun).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [tɐˈbun]
Noun
табу́н • (tabún) m inan (genitive табуна́, nominative plural табуны́, genitive plural табуно́в)
- herd (of horses)
- Synonym: ста́до (stádo)
- (derogatory) crowd, herd (of people)
Declension
Declension of табу́н (inan masc-form hard-stem accent-b)
Descendants
- → Ingrian: tabuna
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “табун”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress