забота

From Old East Slavic зобота (zobota), from Proto-Slavic [Term?], possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gab- (“to watch, show”).[1] Cognate with Proto-West Germanic *kapēn (“to watch, to look”), Proto-Germanic *kōpijaną (“to look after, care for”) (whence English keep). Also compare Ukrainian забо́та (zabóta), Slovene zóbati.

• IPA^(key): [zɐˈbotə]

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забо́та • (zabóta) f inan (genitive забо́ты, nominative plural забо́ты, genitive plural забо́т)

1. care
2. concern, anxiety, worry, trouble

• беззабо́тный (bezzabótnyj)
• забо́тить (zabótitʹ)
• забо́титься (zabótitʹsja)
• забо́тливый (zabótlivyj)
• озабо́ченный (ozabóčennyj)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “забота”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Kroonen, Guus (2013), “kap(p)on”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN