прах

From Proto-Slavic *porxъ, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pers-.

• IPA^(key): [prax]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ax

прах • (prah) m (relational adjective пра́хов or пра́шен, diminutive пра́хче or праши́нка)

1. dust; powder

   прах за пране́ ― prah za prané ― washing powder

   мир на праха́ му ― mir na prahá mu ― may he rest in peace

прах • (prah)

1. first-person singular aorist indicative of пера (pera)

• “прах”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “прах”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

• прахъ (prax) — pre-1918 spelling

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic прахъ (praxŭ), from Proto-Slavic *porxъ, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pers-. Doublet of по́рох (pórox), the inherited East Slavic form.

• IPA^(key): [prax]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ax

прах • (prax) m inan (genitive пра́ха, nominative plural пра́хи, genitive plural пра́хов)

1. (poetic) dust, earth
   • 1880, Михаил Салтыков-Щедрин, “Племяннушка”, in Господа Головлёвы; English translation from I. P. Foote, transl., The Golovlevs, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986:

     Он не понимал, что открывавшаяся перед его глазами могила уносила последнюю связь его с живым миром, последнее живое существо, с которым он мог делить прах, наполнявший его. И что отныне этот прах, не находя истока, будет накопляться в нём до тех пор, пока окончательно не задушит его.

     On ne ponimal, što otkryvavšajasja pered jevo glazami mogila unosila poslednjuju svjazʹ jevo s živym mirom, posledneje živoje suščestvo, s kotorym on mog delitʹ prax, napolnjavšij jevo. I što otnyne etot prax, ne naxodja istoka, budet nakopljatʹsja v njom do tex por, poka okončatelʹno ne zadušit jevo.

     He did not understand that the grave that had opened now before his eyes was bearing away his last link with the living world, the last living creature with whom he could share the dust that filled his being. And that henceforth this dust, finding no release, would accumulate within him until finally it choked him.

2. (of the dead) ashes, remains

   мир пра́ху его́ ― mir práxu jevó ― may he rest in peace (literally, “peace to his ashes”)

• в пух и прах (v pux i prax)

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

• храп (xrap)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *porxъ, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pers-.

• IPA^(key): /prâːx/

пра̑х m inan (Latin spelling prȃh)

1. (uncountable) powder

• “прах”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic прахъ (praxŭ), from Proto-Slavic *porxъ, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pers-. Doublet of по́рох (pórox), the inherited East Slavic form.

• IPA^(key): [prax]

прах • (prax) m inan (genitive пра́ху, nominative plural пра́хи, genitive plural пра́хів)

1. (archaic) dust, earth
2. (archaic, of the dead) ashes, remains

• Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2010–2025), “прах”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1–15 (а – п'ять), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka; Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN

• храп (xrap)