горожанин

Russian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic горожанинъ (gorožaninŭ), from Proto-Slavic *gorďaninъ. Doublet of граждани́н (graždanín), a borrowing from Old Church Slavonic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɡərɐˈʐanʲɪn]
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Noun

горожа́нин • (gorožánin) m anim (genitive горожа́нина, nominative plural горожа́не, genitive plural горожа́н, feminine горожа́нка)

  1. townsman, city dweller, urbanite (male resident of a town)

Declension

Further reading

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

Ukrainian

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic горожанинъ (gorožaninŭ), from Proto-Slavic *gorďaninъ. By surface analysis, го́род (hórod) + -янин (-janyn). Doublet of городя́нин (horodjányn).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɦɔrɔˈʒanen]

Noun

горожа́нин • (horožányn) m pers (genitive горожа́нина, nominative plural горожа́ни, genitive plural горожа́н, feminine горожа́нка, relational adjective горожа́нський)

  1. (colloquial) townsman, city dweller, urbanite (male resident of a town)
    Synonyms: городя́нин (horodjányn), містяни́н (mistjanýn)
  2. (dated) citizen, national
    Synonym: громадя́нин (hromadjányn)

Declension

Further reading

  • Rusanivskyi, V. M., editor (2012), “горожа́нин”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 3 (відстава́ння – ґура́льня), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
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