кропля

• kropla — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)

Borrowed from Polish kropla. Doublet of ка́пля (káplja).

• IPA^(key): [ˈkroplʲa]

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• Rhymes: -oplʲa
• Hyphenation: кроп‧ля

кро́пля • (króplja) f inan (genitive кро́плі, nominative plural кро́плі, genitive plural кро́пляў or кро́пель, relational adjective кро́пельны, diminutive кро́пелька) [with genitive ‘of’]

1. drop (a small round particle of some liquid)

   Synonyms: ка́пка (kápka), ка́пля (káplja)

   • 1940 [1882], Mark Twain, translated by Janka Maŭr, Прынц і жабрак, Minsk: ДВБ, translation of The Prince and the Pauper, page 151:

     Майлс быў бледны, нерухомы, кроплі халоднага поту выступілі ў яго на ілбе, зліліся разам і пацяклі ўніз па твары.

     Majls byŭ bljedny, njeruxómy, krópli xalódnaha pótu vystupili ŭ jahó na ilbje, zlilisja razam i pacjakli ŭniz pa tvary.

     [original: This latter was rigid and colorless, and on his forehead big drops of cold sweat gathered, broke and blended together, and trickled down his face.]

     Miles was pale and rigid, drops of cold sweat gathered on his forehead, blended together and trickled down his face.

2. (figuratively) drop (the smallest amount of something)
   • 1907 [1897], Edward Bellamy, translated by Аляксандр Уласаў, Kazka ab wadzie, translation of The Parable of the Water-Tank, page 10:

     Hetyje kropli ichniej wady, što nazywajucca panskaju łaskaju, wielmi byli horkimi dla biednaho narodu.

     These drops of their water, known as bigwig's charity, were very bitter for the poor people.

• Bulyka, A. M., editor (1997), “кропля”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 16 (коржъ – лесничанка), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 173
• “кропля”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)
• “кропля” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org