"devotchka" meaning in All languages combined

See devotchka on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: devotchkas [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian де́вочка (dévočka, “girl”). Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|ru|де́вочка||girl}} Borrowed from Russian де́вочка (dévočka, “girl”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} devotchka (plural devotchkas)
  1. (rare) A girl, especially one of Russian descent. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-devotchka-en-noun-bl8~F1W4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSONL data for devotchka meaning in All languages combined (1.6kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ru",
        "3": "де́вочка",
        "4": "",
        "5": "girl"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Russian де́вочка (dévočka, “girl”)",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Russian де́вочка (dévočka, “girl”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "devotchkas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "devotchka (plural devotchkas)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1984, Möeth Allison, Russian Roulette, page 115",
          "text": "His arm wrapped her shoulders, and he dropped a kiss on her head. \"Come on, devotchka. I'm taking you home.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Dimitri Anastasopoulos, A Larger Sense of Harvey: A Novel, page 261",
          "text": "Meanwhile, three churlish mops stroke their cheeks at the top of the stairs as if to remind the first guest that they are truly the rosy-cheeked devotchkas of yore.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Paul Dowswell, Red Shadow, page 63",
          "text": "“Comrade Golovkin,” he said. “It is a terrible afternoon, devotchka. May I offer you a ride back to the Kremlin?”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A girl, especially one of Russian descent."
      ],
      "id": "en-devotchka-en-noun-bl8~F1W4",
      "links": [
        [
          "girl",
          "girl"
        ],
        [
          "Russian",
          "Russian"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) A girl, especially one of Russian descent."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "devotchka"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ru",
        "3": "де́вочка",
        "4": "",
        "5": "girl"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Russian де́вочка (dévočka, “girl”)",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Russian де́вочка (dévočka, “girl”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "devotchkas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "devotchka (plural devotchkas)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Russian",
        "English terms derived from Russian",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1984, Möeth Allison, Russian Roulette, page 115",
          "text": "His arm wrapped her shoulders, and he dropped a kiss on her head. \"Come on, devotchka. I'm taking you home.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Dimitri Anastasopoulos, A Larger Sense of Harvey: A Novel, page 261",
          "text": "Meanwhile, three churlish mops stroke their cheeks at the top of the stairs as if to remind the first guest that they are truly the rosy-cheeked devotchkas of yore.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Paul Dowswell, Red Shadow, page 63",
          "text": "“Comrade Golovkin,” he said. “It is a terrible afternoon, devotchka. May I offer you a ride back to the Kremlin?”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A girl, especially one of Russian descent."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "girl",
          "girl"
        ],
        [
          "Russian",
          "Russian"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) A girl, especially one of Russian descent."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "devotchka"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-27 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (0f7b3ac and b863ecc). 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.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.