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Noun [Russian]

IPA: [ˈstaɫkʲɪr] Audio: Ru-сталкер.ogg
Etymology: The word was coined by the Strugatsky brothers for their novel "Roadside Picnic" (1972), as an allusion to Rudyard Kipling's character Stalky from the "Stalky & Co." stories and the English stalker. Ста́лки (Stálki) was well remembered by the Strugatskys from their childhood, when they read the stories in Russian translation. In the "Roadside Picnic", сталкер was a common nickname for men engaged in the illegal trade of prospecting for and smuggling of alien artifacts from the mysterious and dangerous "Zone". The modern meaning is a late semantic loan from English stalker. Etymology templates: {{der|ru|en|stalker}} English stalker, {{sl|ru|en|stalker|nocap=1}} semantic loan from English stalker Head templates: {{ru-noun+|ста́лкер|a=an|f=ста́лкерша}} ста́лкер • (stálker) m anim (genitive ста́лкера, nominative plural ста́лкеры, genitive plural ста́лкеров, feminine ста́лкерша) Forms: ста́лкер [canonical], stálker [romanization], ста́лкера [genitive], ста́лкеры [nominative, plural], ста́лкеров [genitive, plural], ста́лкерша [feminine], no-table-tags [table-tags], ста́лкер [nominative, singular], ста́лкеры [nominative, plural], ста́лкера [genitive, singular], ста́лкеров [genitive, plural], ста́лкеру [dative, singular], ста́лкерам [dative, plural], ста́лкера [accusative, singular], ста́лкеров [accusative, plural], ста́лкером [instrumental, singular], ста́лкерами [instrumental, plural], ста́лкере [prepositional, singular], ста́лкерах [plural, prepositional], сто́кер [alternative, neologism]
  1. stalker (person who secretly follows someone else)
    Sense id: en-сталкер-ru-noun-0yuibjWx Categories (other): Russian nouns with accent pattern a Disambiguation of Russian nouns with accent pattern a: 33 33 35
  2. (rare) stalker (a person who stalks game) (see usage notes) Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-сталкер-ru-noun-DJN2CoHT Categories (other): Russian nouns with accent pattern a Disambiguation of Russian nouns with accent pattern a: 33 33 35
  3. (rare) any person, whose occupation or activity is dangerously similar to those of characters from "Roadside Picnic". Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-сталкер-ru-noun-9sJnbcM8 Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Russian entries with incorrect language header, Russian links with redundant alt parameters, Russian links with redundant wikilinks, Russian nouns with accent pattern a Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 14 14 72 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 8 8 84 Disambiguation of Russian entries with incorrect language header: 19 18 64 Disambiguation of Russian links with redundant alt parameters: 12 16 71 Disambiguation of Russian links with redundant wikilinks: 8 8 84 Disambiguation of Russian nouns with accent pattern a: 33 33 35
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: ста́лкерский (stálkerskij), ста́лкерство (stálkerstvo), ста́лкить (stálkitʹ), ликвида́тор (likvidátor)
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Ru-%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "сталкер"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-02 using wiktextract (a681f8a and 3c020d2). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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