Kazakh

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Alternative scripts
Arabic راپيرا
Cyrillic рапира
Latin rapira

Etymology

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Borrowed from Russian рапи́ра (rapíra), from German Rapier, or directly from French rapière.

Noun

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рапира (rapira)

  1. (fencing) foil

Declension

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Russian

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Etymology

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From German Rapier, or directly from French rapière.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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рапи́ра (rapíraf inan (genitive рапи́ры, nominative plural рапи́ры, genitive plural рапи́р)

  1. (historical) rapier (a European sword with a straight, narrow blade)
    Synonym: шпа́га (špága)
  2. (fencing) foil (a very thin sword used in fencing competitions)

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Further reading

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  • рапира in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “рапира”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress