навзничь

Russian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈnavzʲnʲɪt͡ɕ]

Adverb

на́взничь • (návzničʹ)

on one's back, backwards, face up
Synonym: кве́рху брю́хом (kvérxu brjúxom)

Antonyms: ниц (nic), ничко́м (ničkóm)

Further reading

Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “навзничь”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.