Кавказ

From Russian Кавказ (Kavkaz).

• IPA^(key): [käf.ˈkäz]
• Hyphenation: Кав‧каз

Кавказ • (Kavkaz)

1. Caucasus a region in Eurasia

   Кавказда ир бала тыуыуҙы мылтыҡтан атып хəбəр итəлəр.

   Kavkazda ir bala tıwıwźı mıltıqtan atıp xəbər itələr.

   In the Caucasus, they would fire a rifle to signal that a boy is born.

From Ancient Greek Καύκασος (Kaúkasos), ultimately of Iranian origin.

Was already attested in Old East Slavic as Кавкасийскыѣ горы, a calque of Καυκάσια ὄρη, however according to Vasmer and Trubachyov the current form Кавказ stems from French Caucase and German Kaukasus.

• IPA^(key): [kɐfˈkas]

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Кавка́з • (Kavkáz) m inan (genitive Кавка́за)

1. Caucasus

   на Кавка́зе ― na Kavkáze ― in the Caucasus

• кавка́зец (kavkázec)
• кавка́зский (kavkázskij)

• → Belarusian: Каўка́з (Kaŭkáz)
• → Bulgarian: Кавка́з (Kavkáz)
• → Chechen: Кавказ (Kavkaz), Ковказ (Kovkaz)
• → Czech: Kavkaz
• → Ingush: Кавказ (Kavkaz)
• → Karachay-Balkar: Кавказ (Kavkaz)
• → Kazakh: Кавказ (Kavkaz)
• → Kyrgyz: Кавказ (Kavkaz)
• → Mongolian: Кавказ (Kavkaz)
• → Ossetian: Кавказ (Kavkaz)
• → Polish: Kaukaz
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: Ка̀вказ

  Latin script: Kàvkaz

• → Slovak: Kaukaz
• → Slovene: Kavkáz
• → Tajik: Кавказ (Kavkaz)
• → Turkmen: Kavkaz
• → Ukrainian: Кавказ (Kavkaz)
• → Uzbek: Kavkaz

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “Кавказ”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

• IPA^(key): /kǎʋkaz/
• Hyphenation: Кав‧каз

Ка̀вказ m (Latin spelling Kàvkaz)

1. Caucasus