Kazakh edit

Alternative scripts
Arabic راپيرا
Cyrillic рапира
Latin rapira

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Russian рапи́ра (rapíra), from German Rapier, or directly from French rapière.

Noun edit

рапира (rapira)

  1. (fencing) foil

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Russian edit

 
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Etymology edit

From German Rapier, or directly from French rapière.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

рапи́ра (rapíraf inan (genitive рапи́ры, nominative plural рапи́ры, genitive plural рапи́р)

  1. (historical) rapier (a European sword with a straight, narrow blade)
    Synonym: шпа́га (špága)
  2. (fencing) foil (a very thin sword used in fencing competitions)

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Further reading edit

  • рапира in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “рапира”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress