Belarusian
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- noun
- /ˌbɛləˈruːziən/
:
bielorruso
- The teacher uses Belarusian in the classroom to help students understand their heritage.
Examples
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The Belarusian made himself rich trading in white phosphorus bombs and land mines.
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Local artists didn't understand a thing about surrealism or the Paris School, and even less about the Belarusian's bizarre painting.
Blog text (23) -
At the Open, the seeds even seemed to begin to be sown for the in-your-face Belarusian to one day be embraced by the most in-your-face tennis crowd on the planet.
Blog text (5) -
Jews were in a category of their own, even by comparison with the Slavic peoples who had suffered more than the Russians, such as Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Poles.
Blog text (17) -
Russian democrats, too, would prefer that Bulgarians bought their gas from Gazprom rather than its competitors and that Belarusians and Estonians paid the same high prices that are charged to Germans and Italians.
Academic text (2011) -
Unacceptable are Belarusians, Russians, Ukrainians, Moldovans, Serbs (whose status is now changing), and Turks; although once again, because of strategic reasons and the presence of millions of Turks already within EU member countries, Turkey may be a special case.
Academic text (2002) -
Many Belarusians speak both Belarusian and Russian fluently.
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I learned a few phrases in Belarusian before my trip to Minsk.
Synonyms
A language spoken mainly in Belarus
The language spoken in Belarus
A language spoken mainly in Belarus that uses the Cyrillic alphabet
A language spoken in Belarus, also called Belarusian
The Belarusian language spoken in Belarus
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Belarusian comes from Belarus, which itself is made of bela meaning 'white' and Rus, an old name for the people and lands in that area, plus the ending -ian meaning 'from' or 'relating to'. So Belarusian means the language spoken in Belarus.