дирижёр

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic ديريجيور
Cyrillic дирижёр
Latin dirijior

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian дирижёр (dirižór), from Latin dīrigere (to direct, steer).

Noun

дирижёр • (dirijer)

  1. (music) conductor of a musical ensemble, bandmaster

Declension

Declension of дирижёр
singular plural
nominative дирижёр (dirijer) дирижёрлер (dirijerler)
genitive дирижёрдің (dirijerdıñ) дирижёрлердің (dirijerlerdıñ)
dative дирижёрге (dirijerge) дирижёрлерге (dirijerlerge)
accusative дирижёрді (dirijerdı) дирижёрлерді (dirijerlerdı)
locative дирижёрде (dirijerde) дирижёрлерде (dirijerlerde)
ablative дирижёрден (dirijerden) дирижёрлерден (dirijerlerden)
instrumental дирижёрмен (dirijermen) дирижёрлермен (dirijerlermen)

Derived terms

  • дирижерлік (dirijerlık)

Russian

Etymology

Probably an inner-Russian formation based on дирижи́ровать (dirižírovatʹ) +‎ -ёр (-jór). The usual corresponding French term is dirigeant, not the quite rare or marginal dirigeur. Some steps omitting, from Latin dīrigō (whence also дирижа́бль (dirižáblʹ)); also note p.p.p. dīrēctus (whence дире́ктор (diréktor) and many others).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [dʲɪrʲɪˈʐor]
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Noun

дирижёр • (dirižórm anim (genitive дирижёра, nominative plural дирижёры, genitive plural дирижёров, relational adjective дирижёрский)

  1. (music) conductor of a musical ensemble, bandmaster

Declension

Close related:

Derived from Latin dīrigō, dīrēctus:

Descendants

  • Armenian: դիրիժոր (dirižor)
  • Azerbaijani: dirijor
  • Georgian: დირიჟორი (dirižori)
  • Kazakh: дирижёр (dirijer)

References

  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “дирижёр”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 255