рапира

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic راپيرا
Cyrillic рапира
Latin rapira

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian рапи́ра (rapíra), from German Rapier, or directly from French rapière.

Noun

рапира • (rapira)

  1. (fencing) foil

Declension

Russian

Etymology

From German Rapier, or directly from French rapière.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [rɐˈpʲirə]

Noun

рапи́ра • (rapíra) f inan (genitive рапи́ры, nominative plural рапи́ры, genitive plural рапи́р)

  1. (historical) rapier (a European sword with a straight, narrow blade)
    Synonym: шпа́га (špága)
  2. (fencing) foil (a very thin sword used in fencing competitions)

Declension

Coordinate terms

Further reading

  • рапира in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “рапира”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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