листоноша

лист + носити

• IPA^(key): /listǒnoʃa/
• Hyphenation: лис‧то‧но‧ша

листо̀ноша m anim (Latin spelling listònoša)

1. postman

• “листоноша”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From лист (lyst, “letter; leaf”) +‎ -о- (-o-, “interfix”) +‎ носити (nosyty, “to carry”) +‎ -а (-a, “forms feminine nouns”). Cognate with Serbo-Croatian листоноша, Czech listonoš, and Polish listonosz.

Ноша is a word in itself meaning "a load, what is carried; a burden; clothes", but in compound nouns it can also mean "carrier, bearer, the person that carries" as in Ukrainian книгоноша (knyhonoša, “book bearer”), Ukrainian міхоноша (mixonoša, “sack bearer”), Ukrainian зброєноша (zbrojenoša, “arms-bearer”), etc.

• IPA^(key): [ɫestɔˈnɔʃɐ]

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• Hyphenation: лис‧то‧но‧ша

листоно́ша • (lystonóša) m pers or f pers (genitive листоно́ші, nominative plural листоно́ші, genitive plural листоно́ш)

1. postman

   Synonyms: пошта́р (poštár), листа́р (lystár), поштови́к (poštovýk), (nonstandard, informal) поштальйо́н (poštalʹjón )

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “листоноша”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• “листоноша”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)
• “листоноша”, in Словник.ua [Slovnyk.ua] (in Ukrainian)