тачка

Russian

Etymology

Per Vasmer, from тача́ть (tačátʹ, to stitch) +‎ -ка (-ka). But compare Serbo-Croatian tačke, Polish taczka, etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtat͡ɕkə]
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

та́чка • (táčkaf inan (genitive та́чки, nominative plural та́чки, genitive plural та́чек)

  1. wheelbarrow
  2. shopping cart
  3. (slang) taxi
    пойма́ть та́чкуpojmátʹ táčkuto catch a taxi
  4. (slang) car

Declension

Descendants

  • Kurdish:
    Central Kurdish: داشقە (daşqe, wheelbarrow)
  • Uzbek: tachka

References

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “тачка”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “тачка”, 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 230
  • Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “тачка”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
  • Tsyhanenko, H. P. (1989) “тачать”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Kyiv: Radjanska shkola, →ISBN, page 420

Further reading

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “такати, такаю”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎[1] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 916
    • See also: Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “тачати, тачаю”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎[2] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 929
  • Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “тачать”, 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.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъčьka.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tât͡ʃka/
  • Hyphenation: тач‧ка

Noun

та̏чка f (Latin spelling tȁčka)

  1. (Serbia) dot, period
  2. (Serbia) point
  3. (regional, rare) wheelbarrow (variation of more common plural form тачке/tačke)

Declension

Declension of тачка
singular plural
nominative тачка тачке
genitive тачке тачака / тачки
dative тачки тачкама
accusative тачку тачке
vocative тачко тачке
locative тачки тачкама
instrumental тачком тачкама

Further reading

  • тачка”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025