заумь

Russian

Etymology

Back-formation from зау́мный (zaúmnyj). Coined by Russian poet, artist, and theorist Aleksei Kruchyonykh.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈzaʊmʲ]

Noun

за́умь • (záumʹ) f inan (genitive за́уми, nominative plural за́уми, genitive plural за́умей)

  1. (colloquial, countable) bollocks, nonsense (that which is silly, illogical, and lacks any meaning, reason, or value; that which does not make sense)
  2. (historical, poetry, uncountable) zaum (linguistic experiments in sound symbolism and language creation of Russian Cubo-Futurist poets such as Velimir Khlebnikov and Aleksei Kruchenykh)

Declension

Declension of за́умь (inan fem-form 3rd-decl accent-a) 
singular plural
nominative за́умь
záumʹ 		за́уми
záumi
genitive за́уми
záumi 		за́умей
záumej
dative за́уми
záumi 		за́умям
záumjam
accusative за́умь
záumʹ 		за́уми
záumi
instrumental за́умью
záumʹju 		за́умями
záumjami
prepositional за́уми
záumi 		за́умях
záumjax

Descendants

  • → English: zaum

Further reading

  • заумь in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru
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