право

Russian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpravə]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -avə

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old East Slavic право (pravo). Calque of German Recht and French droit, based on пра́вый (právyj, right, correct; straight). Cognate with Ukrainian пра́во (právo), Belarusian пра́ва (práva) Serbian Church Slavonic Old Church Slavonic право (pravo), Bulgarian пра́во (právo), Serbo-Croatian пра̏во, Slovene prȃvo (tonal orthography), Czech právo, Slovak právo, Polish prawo.

Noun

пра́во (právo) n inan (genitive пра́ва, nominative plural права́, genitive plural прав)

  1. right; claim
  2. (law) law, right
  3. justice
  4. (in the plural) license
Declension

Etymology 2

пра́вый (právyj) + (-o)

Adverb

пра́во (právo)

  1. indeed, really

Adjective

пра́во (právo)

  1. short neuter singular of пра́вый (právyj)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From пра̏в.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prâʋo/
  • Hyphenation: пра‧во

Adverb

пра̏во (Latin spelling prȁvo)

  1. straight
  2. correctly, rightly
  3. justly
  4. strictly

Etymology 2

Morphologically from пра̏в, a calque of German Recht and French droit.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prǎːʋo/
  • Hyphenation: пра‧во

Noun

пра́во n (Latin spelling právo)

  1. right
  2. law
  3. jurisprudence
Declension
Derived terms
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