мішень
Ukrainian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old East Slavic мишень (mišenĭ, “stamp, round plate, sign, tag”), from Turkic. Compare Turkish nişan.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
міше́нь • (mišénʹ) f inan (genitive міше́ні, nominative plural міше́ні, genitive plural міше́ней)
- target, butt, mark (intended destination for a projectile)
- (figurative) target (of attacks, hostility, mockery, persecution etc.)
Declension edit
Declension of міше́нь (inan 3rd-decl fem-form accent-a)
Further reading edit
- Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “мішень”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
- Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2017), “мішень”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 8 (л – мішу́рний), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
- “мішень”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)
- “мішень”, in Kyiv Dictionary (in English)
- “мішень”, in Словник.ua [Slovnyk.ua] (in Ukrainian)