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бабочка

бабочка

Бабочки.

Russian

Noun

ба́бочка (bábočka) f anim, f inan (genitive ба́бочки, nominative plural ба́бочки, genitive plural ба́бочек)

  1. butterfly
    ночна́я ба́бочкаnočnája bábočka ― moth
  2. bowtie
  3. (informal) woman (jocular diminutive form of баба)

Usage notes

Russian does not divide butterflies and moths the same way English does. Russian has мотылёк for a kind of small moth that swarms at night, and моль for the moth that eats clothes, but the other moths are all бабочки.

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