трава

See also: травя

Belarusian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *trava.

Pronunciation

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Noun

трава́ • (travá) f

  1. grass

Old Church Slavonic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *trava.

Noun

трава • (trava) f

  1. grass
  2. plants

Russian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *trava (“grass”), from the PIE root *treh₁-. Related to дрова (drova, “firewood”), травить (travitʹ, “to spoil or damage the grass”) and тереть (teretʹ, “to rub”). Cognate with Ancient Greek τρώγω (trṓgō, “I ate, devour”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [trɐˈva]
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Noun

трава́ • (travá) f inan (genitive травы́, nominative plural тра́вы, genitive plural трав)

  1. grass
  2. herb
    медоно́сные тра́вы ― medonósnyje trávy ― melliferous herbs
  3. (slang) marijuana (or any other vegetative drug; also травка)

Declension

Declension of трава́ (inan fem-form hard-stem accent-d) 
singular plural
nominative трава́
travá		 тра́вы
trávy
genitive травы́
travý		 тра́в
tráv
dative траве́
travé		 тра́вам
trávam
accusative траву́
travú		 тра́вы
trávy
instrumental траво́й, траво́ю
travój, travóju		 тра́вами
trávami
prepositional траве́
travé		 тра́вах
trávax

Derived terms

Adjectives

Nouns

  • тра́вка f (trávka)
  • тра́вонька f (trávonʹka)
  • тра́вушка f (trávuška)

References

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “трава”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačev O. N., Moscow: Progress

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *trava.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /trǎːʋa/
  • Hyphenation: тра‧ва

Noun

тра́ва f (Latin spelling tráva)

  1. (uncountable) grass
  2. herb
  3. (slang) weed, pot
    Он седи на свом кревету пушећи траву и читајући Достојевског. (Ekavian)
    Он сједи на свом кревету пушећи траву и читајући Достојевског. (Ijekavian)
    He's sitting on his bed, smoking pot and reading Dostoyevsky

Declension

Quotations

  • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:trava.

Ukrainian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *trava.

Pronunciation

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Noun

трава́ • (travá) f inan (genitive трави́, nominative plural тра́ви)

  1. grass

Declension

References

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