праца

Inherited from Old Ruthenian пра́ца (práca), from Old Polish praca, from Old Czech prácě, from Proto-Slavic *porťa.

• IPA^(key): [ˈprat͡sa]

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пра́ца • (práca) f inan (genitive пра́цы, nominative plural пра́цы, genitive plural прац or пра́цаў)

1. work, toil, labor

   Synonyms: рабо́та (rabóta), труд (trud)

2. function, operation

• працава́ць (pracavácʹ)
• працаві́ты (pracavíty)
• працаздо́льнасць (pracazdólʹnascʹ)

• “праца” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org

Ultimately from Old Polish praca (via Polish praca, Old Ruthenian пра́ца (práca), Belarusian пра́ца (práca), or Ukrainian пра́ця (prácja)), from Old Czech prácě, from Proto-Slavic *porťa.

• IPA^(key): [ˈprat͡sə]

пра́ца • (práca) f inan (genitive пра́цы, nominative plural пра́цы, genitive plural прац)

1. (dialectal) work, labour

   Synonyms: труд (trud), рабо́та (rabóta)

• працова́ть (pracovátʹ)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “праца”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “праца”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “праца”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volumes 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1373