трава

From Proto-Slavic *trava.

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трава́ • (travá) f

1. grass

From Proto-Slavic *trava.

трава • (trava) f

1. grass
2. plants

From Proto-Slavic *trava (“grass”), from the PIE root *treh₁-. Related to дрова́ (drová, “firewood”), трави́ть (travítʹ, “to spoil or damage the grass”) and тере́ть (terétʹ, “to rub”). Cognate with Ancient Greek τρώγω (trṓgō, “I ate, devour”)

• IPA^(key): [trɐˈva]

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трава́ • (travá) f inan (genitive травы́, nominative plural тра́вы, genitive plural трав)

1. grass
2. herb

   медоно́сные тра́вы ― medonósnyje trávy ― melliferous herbs

3. (slang) marijuana (or any other vegetative drug; also травка)

• Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “трава”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress

From Proto-Slavic *trava.

• IPA^(key): /trǎːʋa/
• Hyphenation: тра‧ва

тра́ва f (Latin spelling tráva)

1. (uncountable) grass
2. herb
3. (slang) weed, pot

   Он седи на свом кревету пушећи траву и читајући Достојевског. (Ekavian)

   Он сједи на свом кревету пушећи траву и читајући Достојевског. (Ijekavian)

   He's sitting on his bed, smoking pot and reading Dostoyevsky

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:trava.

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трава́ • (travá) f inan (genitive трави́, nominative plural тра́ви)

1. grass

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