тарантас

Russian

тарантас (1)

Etymology

Uncertain. Vasmer discounts various proposed Mari, Tatar, and Sanskrit etymons as reversing the direction of borrowing or unbelievable. Perhaps cognate with тарата́йка (taratájka, gig). Not cognate with таранти́ть (tarantítʹ, to chatter).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tərɐnˈtas]
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Noun

таранта́с • (tarantás) m inan (genitive таранта́са, nominative plural таранта́сы, genitive plural таранта́сов)

  1. tarantass (a low horse-drawn carriage without springs used in Russia)
  2. (colloquial) clunker, rustbucket (an old, broken car or other vehicle)

Declension

Further reading

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