вясёлка
Belarusian
Alternative forms
- viasiołka — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)
Etymology
From вясёлы (vjasjóly) + -ка (-ka). Cognate with Russian весёлка (vesjólka) and Ukrainian весе́лка (vesélka).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [vʲaˈsʲoɫka]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -oɫka
- Hyphenation: вя‧сёл‧ка
Noun
вясёлка • (vjasjólka) f inan (genitive вясёлкі, nominative plural вясёлкі, genitive plural вясёлак, relational adjective вясёлкавы)
- (meteorology) rainbow (a multi-colored arc-shaped band in the sky, which arises from the refraction of the sun's rays in raindrops)
- Synonym: ра́дуга (ráduha)
- 1940 [1882], Mark Twain, translated by Janka Maŭr, Прынц і жабрак, Minsk: ДВБ, translation of The Prince and the Pauper, page 169:
- Ён адчуваў сябе, як чалавек, які вышаў палюбавацца вясёлкай, а замест таго яго ўдарыла маланка.
- Jon adčuvaŭ sjabje, jak čalavjek, jaki vyšaŭ paljubavacca vjasjólkaj, a zamjest tahó jahó ŭdaryla malanka.
- [original: He felt much as a man might who had danced blithely out to enjoy a rainbow, and got struck by lightning.]
- He felt like a man, who went out to enjoy a rainbow, and got struck by lightning instead.
Declension
Declension of вясёлка (inan velar fem-form accent-a reduc)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | вясёлка vjasjólka |
вясёлкі vjasjólki |
| genitive | вясёлкі vjasjólki |
вясёлак vjasjólak |
| dative | вясёлцы vjasjólcy |
вясёлкам vjasjólkam |
| accusative | вясёлку vjasjólku |
вясёлкі vjasjólki |
| instrumental | вясёлкай, вясёлкаю vjasjólkaj, vjasjólkaju |
вясёлкамі vjasjólkami |
| locative | вясёлцы vjasjólcy |
вясёлках vjasjólkax |
| count form | — | вясёлкі1 vjasjólki1 |
1Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.
References
- “вясёлка”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)
- “вясёлка” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org