шатёр

Russian

FWOTD – 23 July 2022

Alternative forms

Etymology

From a Turkic language, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *čātïr; compare Albanian çadër, Hungarian sátor, Central Kurdish چادر (çadir), Persian چادر, Serbo-Croatian šator, Urdu چادر (ćādar).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʂɐˈtʲɵr]

Noun

шатёр • (šatjórm inan (genitive шатра́, nominative plural шатры́, genitive plural шатро́в)

  1. large tent (portable lodge), marquee
  2. (architecture) hipped roof, tented roof
  3. (figuratively) canopy
    • 1869, Лев Толстой [Leo Tolstoy], “Том 2, Часть третья, III”, in Война и мир; English translation from Aylmer and Louise Maude, transl., War and Peace, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1922–1923:
      Ста́рый дуб, весь преображённый, раски́нувшись шатро́м со́чной, тёмной зе́лени, млел, чуть колыха́ясь в луча́х вече́рнего со́лнца.
      Stáryj dub, vesʹ preobražónnyj, raskínuvšisʹ šatróm sóčnoj, tjómnoj zéleni, mlel, čutʹ kolyxájasʹ v lučáx večérnevo sólnca.
      The old oak, quite transfigured, spreading out a canopy of sappy dark-green foliage, stood rapt and slightly trembling in the rays of the evening sun.

Declension

Synonyms

  • шатровый (šatrovyj)