мазут

Russian

Etymology

Via Turkic from Arabic مَهْزُولَات f pl (mahzūlāt, “refuse, waste”), feminine plural of مَهْزُول (mahzūl). Influenced by ма́зать (mázatʹ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɐˈzut]

Noun

мазу́т • (mazút) m inan (genitive мазу́та, nominative plural мазу́ты, genitive plural мазу́тов)

1. mazut, fuel oil

Declension

Declension of мазу́т (inan masc-form hard-stem accent-a) 

	singular	plural
nominative	мазу́т mazút	мазу́ты mazúty
genitive	мазу́та mazúta	мазу́тов mazútov
dative	мазу́ту mazútu	мазу́там mazútam
accusative	мазу́т mazút	мазу́ты mazúty
instrumental	мазу́том mazútom	мазу́тами mazútami
prepositional	мазу́те mazúte	мазу́тах mazútax
partitive	мазу́ту mazútu

Descendants

• → Armenian: մազութ (mazutʻ)
• → English: mazut
• → French: mazout
  • → Arabic: مَازُوت (māzūt), مَازُوط (māzūṭ)
  • → Khmer: ម៉ាស៊ូត (maasuut)
  • → Rwanda-Rundi: amazǔtu
  • → Turkish: mazot
• Kurdish:

  → Northern Kurdish: mazot

  → Central Kurdish: مازۆت (mazot)

References

• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “мазут”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “мазут”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress