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Verny Ruslan · by **Verny Ruslan** on Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:04 pm

Some Russian words relating to the body and medicine - useful for Sanibat!

Body - tyelo
Shoulder - plyecha
Chest (breast) - grood
Back - spina
Side - bok
Belly - zhivot
Arm or hand - rooka
Palm - ladon
Elbow - lokot
Finger or toe - palyets
Leg or foot - noga
Knee - kolyeno

More tomorrow!

Verny Ruslan · by **Verny Ruslan** on Mon Jun 25, 2007 2:29 pm

Next batch of words.

Head - gulava
Neck - shyeya
Hair - volosuy
Face - litso
Features - chyertuy
Forehead - lob
Ear - ookho
Eye - glaz
Eyebrow - brov
Eyelash - ryesnitsa

James_evans · by **James_evans** on Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:03 pm

great, thanks for those

maybe it would be useful for this coming beltring if we do a medical stand again :lol:

Comrade Coffin · by **Comrade Coffin** on Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:00 am

Especially if someone has a critical eyebrow injury.

Kozlov · by **Kozlov** on Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:03 am

I'll have you know that getting a ryesnitsa in your glaz is grounds for medical discharge :lol:

Comrade Coffin · by **Comrade Coffin** on Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:04 pm

Or if you get your gulava stuck up your..... what is the Russian for arse?

James_evans · by **James_evans** on Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:15 pm

Comrade Coffin wrote:Russian for arse?

Popka!

Starshiiy Rob · by **Starshiiy Rob** on Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:19 pm

Zhopa. 'Popka' means 'Polly' as in the diminutive of parrot. And I should know.

Bobhr · by **Bobhr** on Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:59 pm

Verny it would help if you add where the stress or emphasis is in your words or they are less easy to use in their present form.

I learnt head as "GulloVAA" so when I read your word it sounded strange.

Nigel told me ,when we were at Colchester , that the stress on the word can make the diffeence between your being understood or just being smiled at with tolearance !
:roll:

Bobhr · by **Bobhr** on Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:00 pm

oops -tolerance ! :oops:

James_evans · by **James_evans** on Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:28 pm

in my russian phrasebook it says popka! and its by lonely planet!

Starshiiy Rob · by **Starshiiy Rob** on Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:48 pm

In my dictionary it says zhopa! And it's Collins Gem! To quote Harry Hill, there's only one solution -

FIGHT!

:wink:

andrei · by **andrei** on Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:02 pm

10 roubles on the yefreftor from boro

Styepan · by **Styepan** on Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:42 pm

I'll see you're ten and raise you a bowl of watered down soup on the young'un. Russian phrase books at 1762500 paces!

James_evans · by **James_evans** on Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:15 pm

*thrusts out collins gem phraseboox* hmm there doesnt seem to be a word for "bottom" or even "bum", however *thrusts out collins dictionry* there isnt a word for a 'human' bottom, only for bottom of page hmm.
i think we had better go with lonley planet :wink:

Starshiiy Rob · by **Starshiiy Rob** on Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:24 pm

One can't trust a source as decadent as the Lonely Planet phrasebook, comrade. Collins Gem Dictionary, 1996 edition, p.386:

Arse [a:s] n (BRIT: Inf!) Zhopa
(word in cyrillic characters, obviously).

Interestingly enough, I use both words (zhopa, popka) in the next edition of KZ. Racy, eh?

James_evans · by **James_evans** on Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:12 pm

Starshiiy Rob wrote:One can't trust a source as decadent as the Lonely Planet phrasebook, comrade. Collins Gem Dictionary, 1996 edition, p.386:

Arse [a:s] n (BRIT: Inf!) Zhopa
(word in cyrillic characters, obviously).

Interestingly enough, I use both words (zhopa, popka) in the next edition of KZ. Racy, eh?

hmm i dont think that collins is a very accurate source, *turns to page 408* there seems to be a word for 'bum', it says zadneetsa, this is getting too confusing, again i stick with lonlely planet, to settle there is only one way, ask a real russian, (or is that giving up :lol:

)

Semyon · by **Semyon** on Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:38 pm

Couldn't there be a few words in Russian that mean the same thing?
After all we have quite few in English for backside.

Bobhr · by **Bobhr** on Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:34 pm

Barry is not on line but I can phone and ask him to check with his Ukrainian wife if you like?

I take it we need Arse
Bum and Bottom !?

In Swedish its Rumpa and German is Arsch (or Po !)

Do we need fart as well ? (thats Prut in Swedish and Futz in German !) arent languages fascinating.

Bobhr · by **Bobhr** on Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:07 pm

Barry is going to email me some "choice" words.
He would have told me over the phone but his wife and son were next to him !! :oops:

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