адвага

Belarusian

Possibly from Polish odwaga. Cognate with Russian отва́га (otvága), Ukrainian відва́га (vidváha).

адва́га • (adváha) f inan (genitive адва́гі, uncountable)

bravery, valour, courage
Synonyms: сме́ласць (smjélascʹ), хра́брасць (xrábrascʹ), му́жнасць (múžnascʹ)

Antonyms: тру́сасць (trúsascʹ), палахлі́васць (palaxlívascʹ), баязлі́васць (bajazlívascʹ), маладу́шнасць (maladúšnascʹ)

Declension of адва́га (inan sg-only velar fem-form accent-a)

	singular
nominative	адва́га adváha
genitive	адва́гі adváhi
dative	адва́зе advázje
accusative	адва́гу adváhu
instrumental	адва́гай, адва́гаю adváhaj, adváhaju
locative	адва́зе advázje

“адвага” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “отвага”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress

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