Example sentences for: tolkovyi

How can you use “tolkovyi” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The entry for the Russian word in the Tolkovyi Slovar' Russkogo Yazyka (Moscow, 1935), reads as follows, as transliterated and translated:

  • The Tolkovyi Slovar' states that the Russian word for balcony (balkon) is borrowed from Italian, which took it from Persian, not the Germanic languages.

  • The 1935 edition of the four-volume Tolkovyi Slovar' Russkogo Yazyka (`Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language') defines glasnost' as: “Accessibility to public discussion and evaluation; publicity.”

  • Did the Italians take their word balcone from some Germanic tongue and pass it on into English, Russian, and other languages; or did Italian take the word from the Persian balahana , as Russian did balagan , at least according to the Tolkovyi Slovar'?

  • Also interesting is the indication in the Tolkovyi Slovar' that the word is of Persian origin and that in Persian it means balcony.


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