урод

Borrowed from Russian уро́д (uród). Synchronically, a doublet of ю́род (júrod) (inherited term).

The Russian borrowing dominates in the standard language, while the inherited term – in literary and poetic environment.

• IPA^(key): [ˈurot]

у́род • (úrod)

1. alternative form of ю́род (júrod)

   Synonym: и́зрод (ízrod)

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

Inherited from Old East Slavic уродъ (urodŭ, “feebleminded, witless, foolish”), from Proto-Slavic *ǫrodъ, ancient deverbative of *roditi with nominal negative prefix *ǫ-, zero grade of *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-.

• IPA^(key): [ʊˈrot]

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• Rhymes: -ot

уро́д • (uród) m anim (genitive уро́да, nominative plural уро́ды, genitive plural уро́дов, feminine уро́дка, diminutive уро́дец)

1. monster
2. ugly creature

• уро́дливый (uródlivyj), уро́дский (uródskij)
• уро́довать (uródovatʹ)
• уро́дство (uródstvo)
• уро́дина (uródina)

• → Armenian: ուռոդ (uṙod)
• → Estonian: urood

• и́зверг m (ízverg)
• монстр m (monstr)
• чудо́вище m (čudóvišče)
• юро́дивый m (juródivyj)

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