жубръ

Old Ruthenian

Alternative forms
  • żubr — alternative spelling

Etymology

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

Noun

жубръ • (žubr) m animal (dialectal)

  1. bison (European bison), wisent

Descendants
  • ⇒ Ukrainian: жуброви́й (žubrovýj)

Further reading
  • The template Template:R:zle-obe:HSBM does not use the parameter(s): 
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    Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.    Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1993), “зубръ, жубръ”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 13 (злотництво – ивовый), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, →ISBN, page 222
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