табун

Russian

Alternative forms

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 • (tabúnm inan (genitive табуна́, nominative plural табуны́, genitive plural табуно́в)

  1. herd (of horses)
    Synonym: ста́до (stádo)
  2. (derogatory) crowd, herd (of people)

Declension

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