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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic щоуждь (štuždĭ), from Proto-Slavic *ťuďь. Doublet of чужо́й (čužój).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡ɕuʐdɨj]
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Adjective

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чу́ждый (čúždyj) (comparative бо́лее чу́ждый)

  1. foreign, strange, alien [with dative or для (dlja, + genitive) ‘to someone/something’]
    • 1906, Александр Куприн [Aleksandr I. Kuprin], “5”, in Штабс-капитан Рыбников; English translation from John Middleton Murry, transl., Captain Ribnikov, 1916:
      Он произнё́с вдруг како́е-то непоня́тное сло́во, соверше́нно чу́ждое слу́ху же́нщины.
      On proiznjós vdrug kakóje-to neponjátnoje slóvo, soveršénno čúždoje slúxu žénščiny.
      He suddenly uttered an unintelligible word, completely foreign to the woman’s ear.
  2. (figurative) a stranger to, not possessing, deprived of, without [with genitive ‘someone/something’]
    чу́ждый самолю́бияčúždyj samoljúbijawithout self-esteem

Declension

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Derived terms

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References

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “чуждый”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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