бровь

Inherited from Old East Slavic бръвь (brŭvĭ), from Proto-Slavic *bry. Cognates include Middle Persian [script needed] (blwk' /⁠brūg⁠/), Northern Kurdish birû, Ossetian ӕрфыг (ærfyg), Sanskrit भ्रू (bhrū), Old English brū (and thus also English brow).

• IPA^(key): [brofʲ]

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• Rhymes: -ofʲ

бровь • (brovʹ) f inan (genitive бро́ви, nominative plural бро́ви, genitive plural брове́й, relational adjective бро́вный, diminutive бро́вка)

1. eyebrow
   • 1869, Лев Толстой [Leo Tolstoy], “Том 2, Часть четвёртая, X”, in Война и мир; English translation from Aylmer and Louise Maude, transl., War and Peace, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1922–1923:

     Наря́д Со́ни был лу́чше всех. Её усы́ и бро́ви необыкнове́нно шли к ней.

     Narjád Sóni byl lúčše vsex. Jejó usý i bróvi neobyknovénno šli k nej.

     Sónya's costume was the best of all. Her mustache and eyebrows were extraordinarily becoming.

• брова́стый (brovástyj)
• бро́вка f (bróvka)

Compounds:

• каранда́ш для брове́й m (karandáš dlja brovéj)

Phrases

• не в бровь, а в глаз (ne v brovʹ, a v glaz)

• белобры́сый (belobrýsyj)

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

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “бровь”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.

• Kuznetsov, Sergey Alexandrovich (1998), “бровь”, in Большой толковый словарь русского языка [Great Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Norint, →ISBN