мужик
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- мужи́къ (mužík) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
Etymology
[edit]From муж (muž, “man (dated); husband”) + -ик (-ik).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]мужи́к • (mužík) m anim (genitive мужика́, nominative plural мужики́, genitive plural мужико́в, relational adjective мужи́цкий or мужи́чий, diminutive мужичо́к, augmentative мужичи́ще, pejorative мужичо́нка or мужичи́шка)
- (low colloquial) man (male person); (UK) bloke, (US) dude, fella, guy
- (colloquial) husband
- (colloquial, approving) a man as a bearer of masculine qualities; man, macho man, real man
- (colloquial) Term of address for men to each other
- Послу́шайте, мужики́! ― Poslúšajte, mužikí! ― Listen, men!
- (rude, archaic, vernacular) coarse, uncouth man; boor
- Synonym: мужла́н (mužlán)
- (historical, Tsarist Russia) commoner, peasant; mujik/muzhik
- Synonyms: крестья́нин (krestʹjánin), простолюди́н (prostoljudín)
- 1885, Николай Лесков [Nikolai Leskov], “Глава шестая”, in Пугало; English translation from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, transl., The Spook, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013:
- Зимо́ю, когда́ в до́ме вста́вили двойны́е ра́мы, я не мог по-пре́жнему ча́сто ви́деться с де́душкой Ильёй и с други́ми мужика́ми.
- Zimóju, kogdá v dóme vstávili dvojnýje rámy, ja ne mog po-préžnemu částo vídetʹsja s déduškoj Ilʹjój i s drugími mužikámi.
- In winter, when the storm windows were put up, I couldn’t see Grandpa Ilya and the other muzhiks as often as before.
- (criminal slang) ordinary convict working conscientiously in a prison camp
Declension
[edit]Declension of мужи́к (anim masc-form velar-stem accent-b)
Derived terms
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