Кавказ

Bashkir

Etymology

From Russian Кавказ (Kavkaz).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [käf.ˈkäz]
• Hyphenation: Кав‧каз

Noun

Кавказ • (Kavkaz)

1. Caucasus a region in Eurasia

   Кавказда ир бала тыуыуҙы мылтыҡтан атып хəбəр итəлəр.

   Kavkazda ir bala tıwıwźı mıltıqtan atıp xəbər itələr.

   In the Caucasus, they would fire a rifle to signal that a boy is born.

Declension

Inflection of Кавказ (Kavkaz)

	singular only
absolute	Кавказ (Kavkaz)
definite genitive	Кавказдың (Kavkazdıñ)
dative	Кавказға (Kavkazğa)
definite accusative	Кавказды (Kavkazdı)
locative	Кавказда (Kavkazda)
ablative	Кавказдан (Kavkazdan)

Russian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Καύκασος (Kaúkasos), ultimately of Iranian origin.

Was already attested in Old East Slavic as Кавкасийскыѣ горы, a calque of Καυκάσια ὄρη, however according to Vasmer and Trubachyov the current form Кавказ stems from French Caucase and German Kaukasus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kɐfˈkas]

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Proper noun

Кавка́з • (Kavkáz) m inan (genitive Кавка́за)

1. Caucasus

   на Кавка́зе ― na Kavkáze ― in the Caucasus

Declension

Declension of Кавка́з (inan sg-only masc-form hard-stem accent-a) 

	singular
nominative	Кавка́з Kavkáz
genitive	Кавка́за Kavkáza
dative	Кавка́зу Kavkázu
accusative	Кавка́з Kavkáz
instrumental	Кавка́зом Kavkázom
prepositional	Кавка́зе Kavkáze

Related terms

• кавка́зец (kavkázec)
• кавка́зский (kavkázskij)

Descendants

• → Belarusian: Каўка́з (Kaŭkáz)
• → Bulgarian: Кавка́з (Kavkáz)
• → Chechen: Кавказ (Kavkaz), Ковказ (Kovkaz)
• → Czech: Kavkaz
• → Ingush: Кавказ (Kavkaz)
• → Lithuanian: Kaukazas
• → Karachay-Balkar: Кавказ (Kavkaz)
• → Kazakh: Кавказ (Kavkaz)
• → Kyrgyz: Кавказ (Kavkaz)
• → Mongolian: Кавказ (Kavkaz)
• → Ossetian: Кавказ (Kavkaz)
• → Polish: Kaukaz
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: Ка̀вказ

  Latin script: Kàvkaz

• → Slovak: Kaukaz
• → Slovene: Kavkáz
• → Tajik: Кавказ (Kavkaz)
• → Turkmen: Kavkaz
• → Ukrainian: Кавказ (Kavkaz)
• → Uzbek: Kavkaz

References

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

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kǎʋkaz/
• Hyphenation: Кав‧каз

Proper noun

Ка̀вказ m (Latin spelling Kàvkaz)

1. Caucasus

Declension

Declension of Кавказ

	singular
nominative	Кавказ
genitive	Кавказа
dative	Кавказу
accusative	Кавказ
vocative	Кавказу
locative	Кавказу
instrumental	Кавказем