кипяток

Russian

Etymology

кипяти́ть (kipjatítʹ) +‎ -о́к (-ók)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kʲɪpʲɪˈtok]
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Noun

кипято́к • (kipjatók) m inan (genitive кипятка́, nominative plural кипятки́, genitive plural кипятко́в, diminutive кипято́чек)

  1. boiling water
    Перепел падал, как ошпаренный кипятком.
    Perepel padal, kak ošparennyj kipjatkom.
    The quail fell down as if scalded with boiling water.
    • P. Yershov, The Humpback Horse:
      Я кончаюсь, Горбунок: Царь велит мне в кипяток!
      Ja končajusʹ, Gorbunok: Carʹ velit mne v kipjatok!
      I'm going to be ended, Humpback: The king orders me [to dive] into boiling water!
  2. (specifically) hot water served as a hot beverage
  3. (rare, colloquial) water that was boiled and then cooled to room temperature, as for example to make nonpotable tapwater be potable.
  4. (colloquial) a hot-tempered person

Declension

Declension of кипято́к (inan masc-form velar-stem accent-b reduc) 
singular plural
nominative кипято́к
kipjatók 		кипятки́
kipjatkí
genitive кипятка́
kipjatká 		кипятко́в
kipjatkóv
dative кипятку́
kipjatkú 		кипятка́м
kipjatkám
accusative кипято́к
kipjatók 		кипятки́
kipjatkí
instrumental кипятко́м
kipjatkóm 		кипятка́ми
kipjatkámi
prepositional кипятке́
kipjatké 		кипятка́х
kipjatkáx
partitive кипятку́
kipjatkú

Derived terms

Phrases
  • пи́сать кипятко́м impf (písatʹ kipjatkóm)
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