заумь
Russian edit
Etymology edit
Back-formation from зау́мный (zaúmnyj). Coined by Russian poet, artist, and theorist Aleksei Kruchyonykh.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
за́умь • (záumʹ) f inan (genitive за́уми, nominative plural за́уми, genitive plural за́умей)
- (colloquial, countable) bollocks, nonsense (that which is silly, illogical, and lacks any meaning, reason, or value; that which does not make sense)
- (historical, poetry, uncountable) zaum (linguistic experiments in sound symbolism and language creation of Russian Cubo-Futurist poets such as Velimir Khlebnikov and Aleksei Kruchenykh)
Declension edit
Descendants edit
- → English: zaum
Further reading edit
- заумь in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru