помои

See also: помой

Russian

Etymology

Related to Bulgarian поми́я (pomíja, “sewage, swill, slops”), Polish pomyje (“slops, swill”), Old Church Slavonic помꙑѩ (pomyję). By surface analysis, по- (po-) +‎ -мои (-moi), combining form of Russian мыть (mytʹ, “to wash”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pɐˈmoɪ]

Noun

помо́и • (pomói) m inan pl (genitive помо́ев, plural only, relational adjective помо́йный)

1. swill, slops (mixture of solid and liquid food scraps)
2. swill, slops, lap (any disgusting or distasteful food, weak and distasteful drink)

Declension

Declension of помо́и (inan pl-only masc-form vowel-stem accent-a) 

	plural
nominative	помо́и pomói
genitive	помо́ев pomójev
dative	помо́ям pomójam
accusative	помо́и pomói
instrumental	помо́ями pomójami
prepositional	помо́ях pomójax

Derived terms

• помо́йка f (pomójka)
• помо́йный (pomójnyj)

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “помои”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress