фант

Borrowed from Polish fant, from German Pfand (“pledge”).

• IPA^(key): [fant]
• Rhymes: -ant

фант • (fant) m inan (genitive фа́нта, nominative plural фа́нты, genitive plural фа́нтов, diminutive фа́нтик)

1. (dated, plural only) fant (game in which players perform comic tasks, assigned by lot to the owner of an object, the "fant")
2. (dated) object whose owner is required to perform a comic task and which must be given back, in the game of fant
3. (dated) task performed in this way

• фа́нтик m (fántik)

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “фант”, 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.