цёра

From Proto-Mordvinic *ćora. Borrowed from a Turkic language, compare Chuvash чура (čura, “slave”). Alternatively, but less likely, related to Estonian tsura (“boy”).

цёра • (ćora)

1. son
   • 1865, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch, page 40:

     I veseme divaźt i kortleźt: avoľ li te Kristos, tśorazo Davideń?

     All the people were astonished and said, “Could this be the Son of David?”

2. boy
3. man (adult male human being)

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• B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “цёра”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
• Heikki Paasonen, Kaino Heikkilä, Martti Kahla (1990-1996) “ćora”, in H. Paasonens Mordwinisches Wörterbuch [Heikki Paasonen's Dialect Dictionary of the Mordvinian Languages]‎^[1], Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, →ISBN

From Proto-Mordvinic *ćora. Borrowed from a Turkic language, compare Chuvash чура (čura, “slave”). Alternatively, but less likely, related to Estonian tsura (“boy”).

цёра • (ćora)

1. guy, a young man
   • O. Je. Poljakov (1995) Učimsja govoritʹ po-mokšanski [Let's learn to speak Moksha], Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, →ISBN

     цёра, -т — парень

     ćora , -t — pareń

     guy — guy [in Russian]

     цёран; цёрат; цёра

     ćoran ; ćorat ; ćora

     I am a guy; you are a guy; he is a guy