упырь
Russian
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Slavic *ǫpyrь. Doublet of вампи́р (vampír).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editупы́рь • (upýrʹ) m anim (genitive упыря́, nominative plural упыри́, genitive plural упыре́й)
- vampire
- 1870, Михаил Салтыков-Щедрин, “Органчик”, in История одного города; English translation from I. P. Foote, transl., The History of a Town, Oxford: Willem A. Meeuws, 1980:
- Начали ходить безобразные слухи. Говорили, что новый градоначальник совсем даже не градоначальник, а оборотень, присланный в Глупов по легкомыслию; что он по ночам, в виде ненасытного упыря, парит над городом и сосёт у сонных обывателей кровь.
- Načali xoditʹ bezobraznyje sluxi. Govorili, što novyj gradonačalʹnik sovsem daže ne gradonačalʹnik, a oborotenʹ, prislannyj v Glupov po lexkomysliju; što on po nočam, v vide nenasytnovo upyrja, parit nad gorodom i sosjót u sonnyx obyvatelej krovʹ.
- Ugly rumours began to circulate. It was said that the new governor was not a governor at all, but a werewolf, who had been sent to Glupov through someone’s folly, and at night he was said to hover over the town in the shape of an insatiable vampire and suck the blood of the sleeping inhabitants.
- (colloquial, figuratively) a cruel person, a bloodsucker, a villain
Declension
editDeclension of упы́рь (anim masc-form soft-stem accent-b)
Pre-reform declension of упы́рь (anim masc-form soft-stem accent-b)
Synonyms
edit- вампи́р (vampír)
Further reading
edit- упырь in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru
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