пост

• IPA^(key): [pɔst]
• Hyphenation: пост

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *postъ.

пост • (post) m (plural пости, related adjective посен)

1. fast (religious abstinence)

• (verb): пости impf (posti)
• (nouns): испосник m (isposnik), испосница f (isposnica)/испосничка f (isposnička)
• (adjective, adverb): испоснички (isposnički)

Borrowed from English post.

пост • (post) m (plural постови)

1. (colloquial, slang) online post

• постира (postira)

• IPA^(key): [post]

Old Russian and pre-Reform постъ (post), as it were Proto-Slavic *postъ, a loan from Old High German fasta (“fast”) (8th century, a feminine noun from the root of Proto-Germanic *fastāną), presumably first in this sense in Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 (fastan), gloss of νηστεία (nēsteía).

пост • (post) m inan (genitive поста́, nominative plural посты́, genitive plural посто́в)

1. fast (period of restricted eating)

   великий пост ― velikij post ― Great Lent (lit. great fast)

• пости́ться (postítʹsja)
• по́стный (póstnyj)

пост

From the French poste, ca. 1700.

пост • (post) m inan (genitive поста́, nominative plural посты́, genitive plural посто́в, related adjective постово́й)

1. post, office, appointment, position, job
2. picket, outpost, guard post, station

Borrowed from English post.

пост • (post) m inan (genitive по́ста, nominative plural по́сты, genitive plural по́стов)

1. (slang) post, message (online forums)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “пост”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress

From Proto-Slavic *postъ.

• IPA^(key): /pôːst/

по̑ст m (Latin spelling pȏst)

1. fast, fasting