заумь

Russian

Etymology

Back-formation from зау́мный (zaúmnyj). Coined by Russian poet, artist, and theorist Aleksei Kruchyonykh.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈzaʊmʲ]

Noun

за́умь • (záumʹ) f inan (genitive за́уми, nominative plural за́уми, genitive plural за́умей)

  1. (colloquial, countable) bollocks, nonsense (that which is silly, illogical, and lacks any meaning, reason, or value; that which does not make sense)
  2. (historical, poetry, uncountable) zaum (linguistic experiments in sound symbolism and language creation of Russian Cubo-Futurist poets such as Velimir Khlebnikov and Aleksei Kruchenykh)

Declension
Declension of за́умь (inan fem-form 3rd-decl accent-a) 
singular plural
nominative за́умь
záumʹ		 за́уми
záumi
genitive за́уми
záumi		 за́умей
záumej
dative за́уми
záumi		 за́умям
záumjam
accusative за́умь
záumʹ		 за́уми
záumi
instrumental за́умью
záumʹju		 за́умями
záumjami
prepositional за́уми
záumi		 за́умях
záumjax

Descendants
  • → English: zaum

Further reading
  • заумь in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru
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