праща

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See also: праша

Bulgarian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • пра́ща: IPA(key): [ˈpraʃtɐ] (present indicative or aorist)
  • праща́: IPA(key): [prɐʃˈta] (aorist only)

Verb[edit]

пра́ща (prášta)

  1. third-person singular present indicative of пра́щам (práštam)

Verb[edit]

пра́ща or праща́ (prášta or praštá)

  1. second-person singular aorist indicative of пра́щам (práštam)
  2. third-person singular aorist indicative of пра́щам (práštam)

Russian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic праща (prašta), from Proto-Slavic *porťa, from *per- (to beat).

Cognate with Polish proca, Bulgarian пра́шка (práška), Slovene prača, Serbo-Croatian пра̏ћа / prȁća. Compare Slovak prak.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

праща́ (praščáf inan (genitive пращи́, nominative plural пращи́, genitive plural праще́й)

  1. (weapon) sling

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References[edit]

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “праща”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress