жупел

Russian

FWOTD – 20 May 2023

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)

  1. (biblical) brimstone
  2. (figurative) bogeyman, bête noire (something frightening or unpleasant, or something used to frighten)
    Synonyms: пу́гало (púgalo), страши́ло (strašílo)

Declension

References

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