запавет

Belarusian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *zapovědь, later reanalyzed by analogy with Proto-Slavic *zavětъ. Cognate with Ukrainian запові́т (zapovít); compare also the normative Russian заве́т (zavét).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [zapaˈvʲet]
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Noun

запаве́т • (zapavjét) m inan (genitive запаве́ту, nominative plural запаве́ты, genitive plural запаве́таў)

  1. testament (document containing a person's will)
    Synonyms: духо́ўніца (duxóŭnica), завяшча́нне (zavjaščánnje), нака́з (nakáz), тэстама́нт (testamánt)
  2. testament (part of the Bible)
    Но́вы Запаве́т ― Nóvy Zapavjét ― New Testament
    Стары́ Запаве́т ― Starý Zapavjét ― Old Testament

Declension
Declension of запаве́т (inan hard masc-form accent-a)
singular plural
nominative запаве́т
zapavjét		 запаве́ты
zapavjéty
genitive запаве́ту
zapavjétu		 запаве́таў
zapavjétaŭ
dative запаве́ту
zapavjétu		 запаве́там
zapavjétam
accusative запаве́т
zapavjét		 запаве́ты
zapavjéty
instrumental запаве́там
zapavjétam		 запаве́тамі
zapavjétami
locative запаве́це
zapavjécje		 запаве́тах
zapavjétax
count form — запаве́ты1
zapavjéty1

1Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.

References
  • “запавет” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
  • "запавет" in Belarusian-Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at Verbum
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