мишура

Russian

Etymology

Unknown. Attested since the first half of the 17th century. In view of мисю́рка (misjúrka, “a kind of helmet-armour with a net”), Ukrainian місю́рка (misjúrka, “a kind of helmet-armour with a net; glass-pearl”) apparently borrowed from one of the notorious Turkic languages which change /b/ to /m/, doublet of би́сер (bíser, “beads, pearls”) or whatever Turkic word that armour name hails from.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [mʲɪʂʊˈra]

Noun

мишура́ • (mišurá) f inan (genitive мишуры́, uncountable)

  1. tinsel
  2. (figurative) showiness, window dressing

Declension
Declension of мишура́ (inan sg-only fem-form hard-stem accent-b) 
singular
nominative мишура́
mišurá
genitive мишуры́
mišurý
dative мишуре́
mišuré
accusative мишуру́
mišurú
instrumental мишуро́й, мишуро́ю
mišurój, mišuróju
prepositional мишуре́
mišuré

Derived terms
  • мишу́рный (mišúrnyj)

Descendants
  • → Belarusian: мішура́ (mišurá)
  • → Erzya: мишара (mišara)
  • → Ingrian: mišura
  • → Moksha: мишара (mišara)
  • → Ukrainian: мішура́ (mišurá)

Further reading
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “мишура”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 536
  • Vasmer, Max (1967) “мишура”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 2 (Е – Муж), Moscow: Progress, page 631
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