жалюзи

• жалузи (obsolete)

Borrowed from French jalousie.

• IPA^(key): [ʐəlʲʉˈzʲi]
• IPA^(key): [ʐɨlʲʉˈzʲi] (phonetic respelling: желюзи́)
• IPA^(key): [ˈʐalʲʉzʲɪ] (phonetic respelling: жа́люзи) (proscribed)

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жалюзи́ • (žaljuzí) n inan or n inan pl (indeclinable)

1. blind, jalousie

• The accent pattern "жа́люзи" is non-standard.
• The term is officially indeclinable, can be used as neuter singular or as plural. It can be declinable in non-standard Russian.

• → Estonian: žalusii

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “жалузи”, 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.