попугай

Russian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pəpʊˈɡaj]
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Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch papegaai. The sense of a unit of length originates from the Soviet animated cartoon "Тридцать восемь попугаев" (1976), where animals measured the length of a boa constrictor by comparing him to a parrot.

Noun

попуга́й (popugáj) m anim or m inan (genitive попуга́я, nominative plural попуга́и, genitive plural попуга́ев, diminutive попуга́йчик)

  1. parrot (bird)
  2. parrot (person)
  3. a showy and gaudily dressed person; popinjay
    разоде́т, как попуга́й (derisive)razodét, kak popugájgarishly dressed
  4. (inanimate) a jocular unit of length, presumably equal to the length of a parrot
Declension
  • (Feminine gender variants) попугаиха (popugaixa), попугайчиха (popugajčixa), попугаица (popugaica)
  • (Diminutive forms) попугайка (popugajka), попугаишка (popugaiška)
  • (Adjectives) попугаичий (popugaičij), попугайский (popugajskij), попугайный (popugajnyj), попугаевый (popugajevyj)
  • (Nouns) попугайничество (popugajničestvo), попугайство (popugajstvo)
  • (Verbs) попугайничать (popugajničatʹ), попугайствовать (popugajstvovatʹ)
Descendants
  • Ingrian: popugai
  • Veps: popugai
  • Yakut: попугай (popugay)

Verb

попуга́й (popugáj)

  1. second-person singular imperative perfective of попуга́ть (popugátʹ)

Yakut

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian попугай (popugaj).

Noun

попугай (popugay)

  1. parrot (bird of the order Psittaciformes)
  2. parrot (one who blindly imitates others' words)
    попугай курдукpopugay kurduklike a parrot
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