праз

From Proto-Slavic *perz.

• IPA^(key): [pras]

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праз • (praz) (+ accusative case)

1. across, over (from one side to the other of)
2. through

   Synonym: скрозь (skrozʹ)

3. via
4. because of, due to

   Synonym: з-за (z-za)

   • 1938 [1848], Charles Dickens, anonymous translator, Домбі і сын, Minsk: ДВБ, translation of Dombey and Son, page 510:

     — Навошта вы перапыняеце хлапца, місіс Браун? Праз вас у мяне ўсё выскачыла з галавы.

     — Navóšta vy pjerapynjajecje xlapca, misis Braun? Praz vas u mjanje wsjo vyskačyla z halavy.

     [original: "How you do take up a cove, Misses Brown! You’ve put it all out of my head again."]

     "Why do you interrupt a fellow, Mrs. Brown? Because of you, it's all gone out of my head."

• “праз” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
• "праз" in Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984) at Verbum

• празъ (praz) — Pre-reform orthography (1945)

• IPA^(key): [pras]

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• Rhymes: -as
• Homophone: прас (pras)

Borrowed from Greek πράσο (práso).

праз • (praz) m

2. (uncountable) leek (type of onion with a long cylindrical stem, white to light green long layered leaves and with a slightly spicy taste (Allium porrum))

   На паза́ра прода́ваха връ́зки пре́сен праз.

   Na pazára prodávaha vrǎ́zki présen praz.

   At the market, they were selling bunches of fresh leeks.

4. (countable) a leek; a bunch or stick of leek

   Дай ми два-три пра́за, чe щe пра́вя чорба́.

   Daj mi dva-tri práza, če šte právja čorbá.

   Give me two or three leeks, I'm going to make soup.

Inherited from Old Church Slavonic празъ (prazŭ), from Proto-Slavic *porzъ (“young domestic animal”).

праз • (praz) m

1. (dialectal) ram (uncastrated male sheep)

• голя́м праз (goljám praz, “big deal, so what”)

• “праз”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “праз”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “праз¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 588
• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “праз²”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 589

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *prazъ.

• IPA^(key): [pras]

праз • (praz) m

1. leek