попутник

Ukrainian

(3) попутник (Pycnoptilus floccosus)

Etymology

по (po) + путь (putʹ) + -ник (-nyk)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [poˈputnek]
  • (file)

Noun

попу́тник • (popútnyk) m pers or m animal (genitive попу́тника, nominative plural попу́тники, genitive plural попу́тників, feminine попу́тниця)

  1. (person) fellow traveller, travelling companion (one who travels together with another)
    Synonym: супу́тник m (supútnyk)
  2. (person, politics) fellow traveller (one who sympathizes with the aims or beliefs of an organization without belonging to it; most often applied to a Communist sympathizer)
  3. (animal) pilotbird (bird of the species Pycnoptilus floccosus)[1]

Declension

(person)

(animal)

  • попу́тний (popútnyj)

References

  1. Фесенко Г. В. (2018) Вітчизняна номенклатура птахів світу [Domestic nomenclature of birds of the world], Kryvyi Rih: ДІОНАТ, →ISBN

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