жубръ

Old Ruthenian

Alternative forms

żubr – alternative spelling

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish żubr, from Old Polish zubr, borrowed from Old Ruthenian зубръ or Old East Slavic *зубръ (*zubrŭ), from Proto-Slavic *zǫbrъ. Doublet of зубръ.

Noun

жубръ • (transliteration needed) m anim (dialectal)

bison (European bison), wisent

Descendants

⇒ Ukrainian: жуброви́й (žubrovýj)

Further reading

Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1993), “зубръ, жубръ”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), issue 13 (злотництво – ивовый), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, →ISBN, page 222

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