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Some Russian words relating to the body and medicine - useful for Sanibat!

Body - tyelo
Shoulder - plyecha
Chest (breast) - grood
Back - spina
Side - bok
Belly - zhivot
Arm or hand - rooka
Palm - ladon
Elbow - lokot
Finger or toe - palyets
Leg or foot - noga
Knee - kolyeno

More tomorrow!

Next batch of words.

Head - gulava
Neck - shyeya
Hair - volosuy
Face - litso
Features - chyertuy
Forehead - lob
Ear - ookho
Eye - glaz
Eyebrow - brov
Eyelash - ryesnitsa

great, thanks for those
maybe it would be useful for this coming beltring if we do a medical stand again

Especially if someone has a critical eyebrow injury.

I'll have you know that getting a ryesnitsa in your glaz is grounds for medical discharge

Or if you get your gulava stuck up your..... what is the Russian for arse?

Comrade Coffin wrote:Russian for arse?

Popka!

Verny it would help if you add where the stress or emphasis is in your words or they are less easy to use in their present form.

I learnt head as "GulloVAA" so when I read your word it sounded strange.

Nigel told me ,when we were at Colchester , that the stress on the word can make the diffeence between your being understood or just being smiled at with tolearance !

oops -tolerance !

in my russian phrasebook it says popka! and its by lonely planet!

10 roubles on the yefreftor from boro

I'll see you're ten and raise you a bowl of watered down soup on the young'un. Russian phrase books at 1762500 paces!

*thrusts out collins gem phraseboox* hmm there doesnt seem to be a word for "bottom" or even "bum", however *thrusts out collins dictionry* there isnt a word for a 'human' bottom, only for bottom of page hmm.
i think we had better go with lonley planet

Starshiiy Rob wrote:One can't trust a source as decadent as the Lonely Planet phrasebook, comrade. Collins Gem Dictionary, 1996 edition, p.386:

Arse [a:s] n (BRIT: Inf!) Zhopa
(word in cyrillic characters, obviously).

Interestingly enough, I use both words (zhopa, popka) in the next edition of KZ. Racy, eh?

hmm i dont think that collins is a very accurate source, *turns to page 408* there seems to be a word for 'bum', it says zadneetsa, this is getting too confusing, again i stick with lonlely planet, to settle there is only one way, ask a real russian, (or is that giving up )

Couldn't there be a few words in Russian that mean the same thing?
After all we have quite few in English for backside.

Barry is not on line but I can phone and ask him to check with his Ukrainian wife if you like?

I take it we need Arse
Bum and Bottom !?

In Swedish its Rumpa and German is Arsch (or Po !)

Do we need fart as well ? (thats Prut in Swedish and Futz in German !) arent languages fascinating.

Barry is going to email me some "choice" words.
He would have told me over the phone but his wife and son were next to him !!