пульс

Russian

пульс

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pulʲs]
  • (file)

Noun

пульс • (pulʹs) m inan (genitive пу́льса, nominative plural пу́льсы, genitive plural пу́льсов)

  1. (physiology, also figuratively) pulse (regular beat caused by the heart)
    • 1925, Михаил Булгаков, chapter 4, in Собачье сердце; English translation from Avril Pyman, transl., Heart of a Dog, Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1990:
      — Умер, конечно?..
      — Нитевидный пульс, — ответил Борменталь.
      — Ещё адреналину.
      — Umer, konečno?..
      — Nitevidnyj pulʹs, — otvetil Bormentalʹ.
      — Ješčó adrenalinu.
      "He's dead, of course?"
      "A thread of a pulse," answered Bormental.
      "More adrenaline!"

Declension

Ukrainian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pouls, from Latin pulsus.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pulʲs]
  • (file)

Noun

пульс • (pulʹs) m inan (genitive пу́льсу, nominative plural пу́льси, genitive plural пу́льсів, relational adjective пульсови́й)

  1. (physiology, also figuratively) pulse

Declension

Derived terms

  • пульса́тор m (pulʹsátor)
  • пульса́ція f (pulʹsácija)
  • пульсува́ти impf (pulʹsuváty)

References

  1. Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2003), “пульс”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 4 (Н – П), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 632

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