грач

• IPA^(key): [ɡrat͡ʃ]

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грач • (grač) m

1. croak (characteristic cry of ravens and other corvids)

• грак m (grak), гра́ка f (gráka)

• гра́ча (gráča, “to caw, to crook”)

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

• грачъ (grač) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Originally Russian word formed from the onomatopoeia гра (gra) +‎ -ач (-ač). Cf. ка́ркать (kárkatʹ) and other similar words with onomatopoeic origin, such as Ukrainian грак (hrak, “rook”) and крук (kruk, “raven”).

• IPA^(key): [ɡrat͡ɕ]

грач • (grač) m anim (genitive грача́, nominative plural грачи́, genitive plural граче́й)

1. rook (a black bird whose large flocks signal the arrival of spring)

Inherited from Old Ruthenian грачъ, кграчъ (hrač, grač), from Proto-Slavic *jьgračь. By surface analysis, гра́ти (hráty) +‎ -ач (-ač).

• IPA^(key): [ɦrat͡ʃ]

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грач • (hrač) m pers (genitive грача́, nominative plural грачі́, genitive plural грачі́в)

1. player, gamer (one who plays any game)

   Synonyms: граве́ць (hravécʹ), грець (hrecʹ), картя́р (kartjár)

2. (rare, music) player (one who plays on a musical instrument)

   Synonyms: музика́нт (muzykánt), музи́ка (muzýka), граве́ць (hravécʹ), грець (hrecʹ), оркестра́нт (orkestránt), викона́вець (vykonávecʹ)

• ні грач, ні помага́ч (ni hrač, ni pomaháč)