жупел
Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic жоупелъ (župelŭ) (alternative form: зюпелъ (zjupelŭ)), from Old High German swebal or sweval, from Proto-Germanic *sweblaz. An alternative etymology, which explains the presence of оу, derives жоупелъ (župelŭ) from Latin sulpur, possibly via a Rhaeto-Romance or other unknown intermediary.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈʐupʲɪɫ]
Noun
жу́пел • (žúpel) m inan (genitive жу́пела, nominative plural жу́пелы, genitive plural жу́пелов)
- (biblical) brimstone
- 1904, К. П. Победоносцев, Вопросы жизни:
- осо́бенно в зако́не уголо́вном до́лжно смотре́ть, что́бы цель устраше́ния не обраща́лась в цель жесто́кости, и чтоб зако́ны не поража́ли наро́д дождём и огня́ и жу́пела, о ко́ем говори́т Писа́ние
- osóbenno v zakóne ugolóvnom dólžno smotrétʹ, štóby celʹ ustrašénija ne obraščálasʹ v celʹ žestókosti, i štob zakóny ne poražáli naród doždjóm i ognjá i žúpela, o kójem govorít Pisánije
- especial care must be taken in criminal law that the purpose of intimidation does not turn into the purpose of cruelty, and that the laws do not punish the people with the rain of fire and brimstone of which the Scripture tells
- (figurative) bogeyman, bête noire (something frightening or unpleasant, or something used to frighten)
- 1925, И. А. Бунин, Окаянные дни:
- А ведь захвати́ли э́тот дом как раз при том стро́е, из кото́рого сде́лали и́стинно мирово́й жу́пел.
- A vedʹ zaxvatíli étot dom kak raz pri tom stróje, iz kotórovo sdélali ístinno mirovój žúpel.
- And keep in mind that this house was taken over in the time of precisely that regime which they have turned into the world's greatest bogeyman.
-
Declension
Declension of жу́пел (inan masc-form hard-stem accent-a)
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “жупел”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.