таварыш

Belarusian

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic товарищь (tovariščĭ), from Proto-Slavic *tovariščь. Cognate with Russian това́рищ (továrišč) and Ukrainian това́риш (továryš).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [taˈvarɨʂ]

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• Rhymes: -arɨʂ
• Hyphenation: та‧ва‧рыш

Noun

тава́рыш • (taváryš) m pers (genitive тава́рыша, nominative plural тава́рышы, genitive plural тава́рышаў, female equivalent тава́рышка)

1. comrade (a person close to someone in common views, activities, living conditions, etc.)
2. tovarish (citizen, person in Soviet society)
3. peer (a person of the same age as someone)

   Synonym: раве́снік (ravjésnik)

4. (obsolete) assistant, colleague

   Synonyms: памо́чнік (pamóčnik), наме́снік (namjésnik)

Declension

Declension of тава́рыш (pr hard masc-form accent-a)

	singular	plural
nominative	тава́рыш taváryš	тава́рышы taváryšy
genitive	тава́рыша taváryša	тава́рышаў taváryšaŭ
dative	тава́рышу taváryšu	тава́рышам taváryšam
accusative	тава́рыша taváryša	тава́рышаў taváryšaŭ
instrumental	тава́рышам taváryšam	тава́рышамі taváryšami
locative	тава́рышу taváryšu	тава́рышах taváryšax
count form	—	тава́рышы1 taváryšy1

¹Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.

References

• “таварыш”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)
• “таварыш” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org