# лошадь
## Old East Slavic
### Etymology

From лоша (loša) +‎ -дь (-dĭ). The suffix is the same as in Old Church Slavonic ослѣдь (oslědĭ, “onager, wild ass”).

### Noun

лошадь (lošadĭ) f (related adjective лошадинъ, diminutive лошадька)
* horse
    Synonyms: конь (konĭ), кобꙑла (kobyla), комонь (komonĭ)

#### Descendants

* Old Ruthenian: ло́шадь (lóšadʹ), ло́шадъ (lóšad), ло́шатъ (lóšat)
* Middle Russian: ло́шадь (lóšadʹ)
** Russian: ло́шадь (lóšadʹ)
*** → Belarusian: лошадзь (lóšadzʹ)

### Further reading

* Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “лошадь”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 48
* Avanesov, R. I., editor (1991), “лошадь”, in Словарь древнерусского языка (XI–XIV вв.): в 10 т. [Dictionary of the Old Russian Language (11ᵗʰ–14ᵗʰ cc.): in 10 vols] (in Russian), volume 4 (изживати – молениѥ), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 429
* Filin, F. P., editor (1981), “лошадь”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ cc.] (in Russian), issue 8 (крада – лящина), Moscow: Nauka, page 288

## Old Ruthenian
### Alternative forms

* ло́шадъ (lóšad), ло́шатъ (lóšat)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic лошадь (lošadĭ). Cognate with Russian ло́шадь (lóšadʹ), which is from Middle Russian ло́шадь (lóšadʹ).

### Noun

лошадь • (lošadʹ) f animal
* horse
    Synonym: конь (konʹ)

### Further reading

* Chikalo, M. I., editor (2013), “лошадъ, лошатъ”, in Словник української мови XVI – I пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 16 (легкомыслность – лѧчи), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 104
* Bulyka, A. M., editor (1998), “лошадь”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 17 (лесничий – местский), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 124

## Russian
### Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic лошадь (lošadĭ), from лоша (loša), a Turkic borrowing; compare Tatar алаша (alaşa, “pack horse”), Chuvash лаша (laš̬a, “horse”), Kazakh алаша (alaşa, “a kind of camel”), Crimean Tatar алаша (“horse”), etc.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɫoʂətʲ]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

ло́шадь • (lóšadʹ) f anim (genitive ло́шади, nominative plural ло́шади, genitive plural лошаде́й, relational adjective лошади́ный, diminutive лоша́дка)
* horse
    Synonyms: конь (konʹ), кобы́ла (kobýla), рыса́к (rysák), скаку́н (skakún), кля́ча (kljáča), си́вка (sívka)

#### Declension

$^△$Irregular.
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#### Derived terms

* лоша́дник m anim (lošádnik)
* лоша́дный (lošádnyj), безлоша́дный (bezlošádnyj)

#### Related terms

* лоша́к m anim (lošák)

#### Descendants

* → Yup'ik: luussitaq

### See also

* жеребёнок (žerebjónok)
* жеребе́ц (žerebéc)
* кони́на (konína)
* ме́рин (mérin)

### References

* Buck, Carl Darling (1949) A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, page 169a
* Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “лошадь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
* Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “лошадь”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 493
* Shansky, N. M., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (1999), “лошадь”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), number 9 (Л), Moscow: Moscow University Press, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, page 179
* Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “лошадь”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
* Krylov, G. A. (2004) “лошадь”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Victory, →ISBN
* Tsyhanenko, H. P. (1989) “лошадь”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Kyiv: Radjanska shkola, →ISBN, page 218