язва

Inherited from Old East Slavic ꙗзва (jazva), from Proto-Slavic *jàzva.

• IPA^(key): [ˈjazva]
• Rhymes: -azva
• Hyphenation: яз‧ва

я́зва • (jázva) f inan (genitive я́звы, nominative plural я́звы, genitive plural я́зваў, relational adjective я́звавы, diminutive я́звачка)

1. (medicine) sore, ulcer (purulent or inflamed wound on the skin or mucous membrane)
2. (epidemiology, obsolete) epidemic, plague
3. (figuratively) sore (affliction, difficulty, trouble)

я́зва • (jázva) f pers (genitive я́звы, nominative plural я́звы, genitive plural я́зваў)

1. (colloquial, figuratively) viper (malicious person)

• “язва”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)
• “язва” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org

From Proto-Slavic *jazva.

я́зва • (jázva) f (relational adjective я́звен)

1. (colloquial) sore, any inner injury
2. (medicine) ulcer
3. (figurative) evil, wrong

   Synonyms: злина (zlina), нещастие (neštastie)

• язвя (jazvja, “to sting; to offend, insult”)
• язвителен (jazvitelen, “ulcerative”)
• язвен (jazven, “ulcerous”)

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

From Old East Slavic ꙗзва (jazva), from Proto-Slavic *jazva, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *áiˀźwāˀ. Cognate to Old Prussian eyswo (“wound”), Lithuanian áiža, Latvian aĩza.

• IPA^(key): [ˈjazvə]

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я́зва • (jázva) f inan (genitive я́звы, nominative plural я́звы, genitive plural язв, relational adjective я́звенный, diminutive я́звочка)

1. ulcer, sore

   я́зва желу́дка ― jázva želúdka ― stomach/gastric ulcer

   я́зва двенадцатиперстной кишки́ ― jázva dvenadcatiperstnoj kiškí ― duodenal ulcer

2. sore, evil

   моровая я́зва ― morovaja jázva ― plague

   сиби́рская я́зва ― sibírskaja jázva ― anthrax

3. (colloquial) pest, viper (malicious person)

• я́звенник m anim (jázvennik)

• → Armenian: յազվա (yazva)

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