топор

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *toporъ. Either an Iranian borrowing (chronologically disputed) or from an expressive root related to Bulgarian те́пам (tépam, “to beat”), то́пам (tópam, “to bounce”) +‎ -ор (-or).

• IPA^(key): [toˈpɔr]
• Hyphenation^(key): то‧пор
• Rhymes: -ɔr

топо́р • (topór) m

1. axe, hatchet

• бра́два (brádva, “bearded axe”)
• секи́ра (sekíra, “splitting axe”)
• сатъ́р (satǎ́r, “broad axe”)
• ки́рка (kírka, “pickaxe”)
• тесла́ (teslá, “adze”)

• топо́рище (topórište) (augmentative)

• “топор”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “топор”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

• отпор (otpor), прото- (proto-), ропот (ropot)

• топо́ръ (topór) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Inherited from Old East Slavic топоръ (toporŭ, “poleaxe”), from Proto-Slavic *toporъ. Further etymology is disputed.

• IPA^(key): [tɐˈpor]

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топо́р • (topór) m inan (genitive топора́, nominative plural топоры́, genitive plural топоро́в, relational adjective топо́рный, diminutive топо́рик, augmentative топори́ще)

1. axe, ax, hatchet

   пла́вать как топо́р ― plávatʹ kak topór ― swim like a stone

• This is the default and unmarked word for "axe". Every type of axe and battle-axe may be called , however, poleaxes and halberds are currently not widely considered to be axes by Russian speakers, as they are felt to be allied to spears and pikes, while for example the Dane axe is seen as an axe.

• секи́ра (sekíra) (dialectal, archaic)

• топори́ще n (toporíšče)

Phrases

• ка́ша из топора́ f (káša iz toporá)
• три топора́ (tri toporá)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “топор”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “топоръ”, 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 980
  • Continuing: Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “топоръкъ”, 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 981
• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “топор”, 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.

• ро́пот (rópot), отпо́р (otpór)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *toporъ, from an Iranian language. Compare Persian تبر (tabar).

то̏пор m animacy unspecified (Latin spelling tȍpor)

1. (regional, rare) axe

   Synonyms: сјѐкира, сѐкира