Russian

Noun

я́беда • ‎(jábeda) m anim, f anim, f inan ‎(genitive я́беды, nominative plural я́беды, genitive plural я́бед)

1. (masculine or feminine, animate) tattletale
2. (feminine, inanimate, obsolete) slander, snitching

Declension

Related terms

• я́бедничать ‎(jábedničatʹ)

References

• Fasmer, Maks (1964–1973), “ябеда”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačev O. N., Moscow: Progress