на попа

Russian

Etymology

From на (na) and obsolete поп (pop, “figure in the game of Gorodki”) (named after поп (pop, “priest”)), probably used as euphemism for попа (popa, “butt”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [nə‿pɐˈpa]

Adverb

на попа́ • (na popá)

  1. vertically
    Synonyms: вертикально (vertikalʹno), стоймя (stojmja)

Usage notes

Used after verbs like встать (vstatʹ) or ставить (stavitʹ) and their forms like поставить (postavitʹ), встал (vstal), вставать (vstavatʹ)), поставлен (postavlen)) etc., but never together with verb стоять (stojatʹ) and its derived forms (in this case the adverb вертикально (vertikalʹno) is used).

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