утроба

Borrowed from Russian утро́ба (utróba), from *ǫtroba. Synchronically analyzable as въ́тре (vǎ́tre, “inside”) +‎ -оба (-oba).

• IPA^(key): [oˈtrɔbɐ]

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• Rhymes: -ɔbɐ
• Syllabification^(key): у‧тро‧ба
• Hyphenation^(key): ут‧ро‧ба

утро́ба • (utróba) f

1. womb, uterus
2. gut, interior of an organism

• въ́трешност (vǎ́trešnost, “interior”)

• “утроба”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “утроба”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Nayden Gerov; Тодор Панчев (1904), “утро́ба”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language] (in Bulgarian), volume 5, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 462
• “ѫтроба”, in Старобългарски речник [Dictionary of Old Bulgarian] (in Bulgarian), https://histdict.uni-sofia.bg, 2011—2025

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ǫtroba.

• IPA^(key): [ˈutrɔba]

утроба • (utroba) f

1. gut, interior of an organism
2. womb, uterus

Inherited from Old East Slavic утроба (utroba), from Proto-Slavic *ǫtroba (“internal organs”).

• IPA^(key): [ʊˈtrobə]

утро́ба • (utróba) f inan (genitive утро́бы, nominative plural утро́бы, genitive plural утро́б)

1. womb
   • 2005, Сергей Кузнецов [Sergey Kuznetsov], chapter 28, in Шкурка бабочки, Москва: Эксмо; English translation from Andrew Bromfield, transl., Butteefly Skin, London: Titan Books, 2014:

     Когда́ Ксе́ния засыпа́ла, ей каза́лось, что одея́ло, накры́вшее её с голово́й, – э́то та́ же утро́ба, и то́й же утро́бой каза́лся подзе́мный рестора́н, где небольшо́й компа́нией в пятна́дцать челове́к они́ отмеча́ли Лёвину сва́дьбу.

     Kogdá Ksénija zasypála, jej kazálosʹ, što odejálo, nakrývšeje jejó s golovój, – éto tá že utróba, i tój že utróboj kazálsja podzémnyj restorán, gde nebolʹšój kompánijej v pjatnádcatʹ čelovék oní otmečáli Ljóvinu svádʹbu.

     As Ksenia fell asleep, she felt as if the blanket pulled right up over her head was that womb, the womb in which there was a basement restaurant where they had celebrated Lyova’s wedding in a modest gathering of fifteen people.

2. belly

• утробный (utrobnyj)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ǫtroba.

• IPA^(key): /ûtroba/
• Hyphenation: у‧тро‧ба

у̏троба f (Latin spelling ȕtroba)

1. intestines
2. womb
3. bowel
4. entrails

• “утроба”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025