збруя

From Polish zbroja (“armour”), likely either through a nonstandard dialect (with stressed o -> u shift) or from genitive plural "zbrój" of the Polish word. Compare the Babia Góra dialectal meaning of Polish zbroja (“horse harness”). Cognate with Belarusian збру́я (zbrúja), Russian сбру́я (sbrúja). Doublet of збро́я (zbrója).

• IPA^(key): [ˈzbrujɐ]

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збру́я • (zbrúja) f inan (genitive збру́ї, uncountable)

1. tack (for saddling horses and other animals)

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “збруя”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2010–2023), “збруя”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1–14 (а – префере́нція), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka; Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “збру́я”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• “збруя”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)