забота

See also: заботя

Russian

Etymology

From Old East Slavic зобота (zobota), from Proto-Slavic [Term?], possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gab- (“to watch, show”).[1] Cognate with Proto-West Germanic *kapēn (“to watch, to look”), Proto-Germanic *kōpijaną (“to look after, care for”) (whence English keep). Also compare Ukrainian забо́та (zabóta), Slovene zóbati.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [zɐˈbotə]
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Noun

забо́та • (zabóta) f inan (genitive забо́ты, nominative plural забо́ты, genitive plural забо́т)

  1. care
  2. concern, anxiety, worry, trouble
    • 1958, “Песня о тревожной молодости (Song of the Restless Youth)”, Lev Oshanin (lyrics), Aleksandra Pakhmutova (music)‎:
      Забота у нас простая,
      Забота наша такая:
      Жила бы страна родная,
      И нету других забот!
      Zabota u nas prostaja,
      Zabota naša takaja:
      Žila by strana rodnaja,
      I netu drugix zabot!
      Our concern is simple;
      our concern is this:
      That our dear country would live,
      and there are no other concerns!

Declension
Declension of забо́та (inan fem-form hard-stem accent-a) 
singular plural
nominative забо́та
zabóta		 забо́ты
zabóty
genitive забо́ты
zabóty		 забо́т
zabót
dative забо́те
zabóte		 забо́там
zabótam
accusative забо́ту
zabótu		 забо́ты
zabóty
instrumental забо́той, забо́тою
zabótoj, zabótoju		 забо́тами
zabótami
prepositional забо́те
zabóte		 забо́тах
zabótax

References
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “забота”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Kroonen, Guus (2013) “kap(p)on”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 349, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 349
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