вокзал

• фоксал (foksal), воксал (voksal), воксгал (voksgal) (obsolete)

Borrowed from English Vauxhall (former site of a pleasure garden). The ending was influenced by зал (zal, “hall”). The spelling фоксал (foksal) attested in 1777 is from French facs-hall, from the same English source. The transportation sense derives from an epithet for the Pavlovsk train station building, which at one time served as both a passenger lounge and a place of entertainment.

• IPA^(key): [vɐɡˈzal]

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вокза́л • (vokzál) m inan (genitive вокза́ла, nominative plural вокза́лы, genitive plural вокза́лов)

1. (obsolete) park, pleasure garden
   • 1813, Aleksandr Pushkin, To Natalie:

     На гуля́ньях иль в воксалах / Легким зефи́ром лета́л.

     Na guljánʹjax ilʹ v voksalax / Lexkim zefírom letál.

     At fetes and in parks, I've been flitting like a gentle zephyr.

2. (transport) station, terminal (with a building for passenger facilities)
   1. train station, railroad station, railway station, depot (with a building for passenger facilities)

• ста́нция f (stáncija)

• автовокза́л (avtovokzál)
• аэровокза́л (aerovokzál)
• железнодоро́жный вокза́л (železnodoróžnyj vokzál)
• морско́й вокза́л (morskój vokzál)
• речно́й вокза́л (rečnój vokzál)

• желе́зная доро́га (želéznaja doróga)
• по́езд (pójezd)

• Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “вокзал”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
• Černyx, P. Ja. (1999), “вокзал”, in Istoriko-etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1, 3rd reprint edition, Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 162
• Šapošnikov, A. K. (2010), “вокзал”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ sovremennovo russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Contemporary Russian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Flinta; Nauka, page 135b

• IPA^(key): [wɔˈɡzɑl]

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вокза́л • (vokzál) m inan (genitive вокза́лу, nominative plural вокза́ли)

1. train station, railroad station, railway station, depot

• вокзал in Bilodid I. K., editor (1970–1980) Slovnyk ukrajinsʹkoji movy, Kiev: Naukova Dumka