узда

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *uzda.

• IPA^(key): [ˈuzda]

узда • (uzda) f

1. bridle, rein

• “узда” in Дигитален речник на македонскиот јазик (Digitalen rečnik na makedonskiot jazik) [Digital dictionary of the Macedonian language] − drmj.eu
• “узда” in Официјален дигитален речник на македонскиот јазик (Oficijalen digitalen rečnik na makedonskiot jazik) − makedonski.gov.mk (in Macedonian)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *uzda. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic оузда (uzda) and Old Polish uzda.

• Hyphenation: у‧зда

узда (uzda) f

1. bridle
   • 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik‎^[1], page 3:

     рекоу же· оуꙁда коневи правитель ѥсть и въꙁдьржаниѥ·

     reku že· uzda konevi pravitelĭ jestĭ i vŭzdĭržanije·

     But I say: A bridle is a leader to a horse and a restriction.

• Old Ruthenian: узда́ (uzdá)
  • Belarusian: вузда́ (vuzdá)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: у́зда (úzda)
  • Ukrainian: вузда́ (vuzdá)
• Russian: узда́ (uzdá)

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “ꙋзда”, 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 1169

Inherited from Old East Slavic узда (uzda), from Proto-Slavic *uzda. Compare Bulgarian юзда́ (juzdá), Czech uzda, Macedonian узда (uzda), Polish uzda.

• IPA^(key): [ʊzˈda]

узда́ • (uzdá) f inan (genitive узды́, nominative plural у́зды, genitive plural узд)

1. bridle (headgear for horse)
   • 1915, Сергей Есенин, Табун; English translation from Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky, transl., Upon Green Hills, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1921:

     Дрожа́т их го́ловы над ти́хою водо́й,
     И ло́вит ме́сяц их сере́бряной уздо́й.

     Drožát ix gólovy nad tíxoju vodój,
     I lóvit mésjac ix serébrjanoj uzdój.

     They toss their heads above the still lagoon
     Caught with a silver bridle by the moon.

Phrases

• держа́ть в узде́ impf (deržátʹ v uzdé)

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

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “узда”, 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.
• узда in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *uzda.

• IPA^(key): /ǔːzda/
• Hyphenation: уз‧да

у́зда f (Latin spelling úzda)

1. (usually in the plural) bridle, rein

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