юфть

Russian

Alternative forms

юхть (juxtʹ), ю́фта (júfta), ю́хта (júxta) — till 19th century also

Etymology

Unknown, but suspected to be a Turkic borrowing of Classical Persian (juft, “pair”) due to the hides having been tanned pairwise.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [juftʲ]
Audio (Saint Petersburg): (file)

Noun

юфть • (juftʹ) f inan (genitive ю́фти, uncountable)

yuft, Russia leather

Declension

Declension of юфть (inan sg-only fem-form 3rd-decl accent-a)

	singular
nominative	ю́фть júftʹ
genitive	ю́фти júfti
dative	ю́фти júfti
accusative	ю́фть júftʹ
instrumental	ю́фтью júftʹju
prepositional	ю́фти júfti

Derived terms

юфтя́ный (juftjányj)
ю́фотный (júfotnyj)

Descendants

→ Bulgarian: юфт (juft)
→ Czech: juchta
→ Finnish: juhti
→ Middle Low German: juften, juchten
- → Dutch: jucht, (older also) jocht, juft, juften, juchten
- → English: yuft
- → German: Juchten, Juften
  - → Slovene: jȗhta, jȗht f, jȗft f
- → Swedish: juft, jucht, jukt, juften, juchten
→ Polish: jucht
→ Romanian: iuft
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: ју̏хта

Latin script: jȕhta
→ Slovak: juchta
→ Ukrainian: ю́хта (júxta), юхт (juxt)