тпру

Chechen

Etymology

Uncertain. Onomatopoeic or borrowed from Russian тпру (tpru).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʙ̥ːu/, /ˈʙːu/

Interjection

тпру • (tpru)

  1. whoa (when commanding a horse to stop or imitative thereof)
proper nouns
  • Тпручи (Tpruči, “pet name for a horse”)

References

  • Matsiev, Akhmat G. (1961), Чеченско-русский словарь / Нохчийн-оьрсийн словарь [Chechen-Russian dictionary] (in Russian), Moscow: State Publishing House of Foreign and Ethnicity Dictionaries, page 396

Russian

Alternative forms

  • тпрусё (tprusjó), птрути (ptruti) — archaic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʙ̥ːu]
  • IPA(key): [ʙːu]
  • IPA(key): [tpru]

Interjection

тпру • (tpru)

  1. whoa (when commanding a horse to stop or imitative thereof)
    Antonyms: но́-о-о (nó-o-o), ну (nu)

Descendants

  • →? Chechen: тпру (tpru)
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