Russian–English dictionary

каторжный

Of or relating to punishment. · katorzhnyy

Катри́н

A en given name. · Katrin

ка́тти

A (unit of) weight used in China which is metricated in Mainland China as exactly 0.5 kg, and approximately 0.6 kg for other places. · katti

кату́шка

A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled. · katushka

ка́тышек

(textiles) A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibers formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing. · katyshek

Ка́тя

A en given name, equivalent to English Kate. · Katya

каучу́к

(obsolete) Latex; natural rubber. · kauchuk

кафе́

A coffee shop; an establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises. · kafe

ка́федра

A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy, such as ancestral statues; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from. [from c. 1800.] · kafedra

ка́фель

A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile, etc. · kafel

кафете́рий

(chiefly, US, Canada) A restaurant in which customers select their food at a counter then carry it on a tray to a table to eat. · kafeteriy

ка́фи́р

(religious slur) A non-Muslim, especially a Christian, an infidel; especially as used by Turkish people with particular reference to Christians such as Greeks, Armenians, Bulgarians, Serbs and Assyrians. · kafir

Ка́фка

A surname from German. · Kafka

кафкиа́нский

Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity. · kafkianskiy

кафр

(countable, South Africa, Rhodesia, Namibia, ethnic slur, offensive, derogatory) A black person. [from 17th c.] · kafr

кафта́н

A long tunic worn in the Eastern Mediterranean. · kaftan

кача́лка

(especially, weightlifting) A sports facility specialized for lifting weights, cardio machines, and other exercise (culturally differentiated from sense 1). · kachalka

кача́н

(slang) The head. · kachan

кача́ние

the act of oscillating or the state of being oscillated · kachaniye

кача́ть

(transitive) To hang or trail something loosely. · kachat

кача́ться

(intransitive) To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium. · kachatsya

кача́ться на доске́

(intransitive) To use a seesaw. · kachatsya na doske

каче́ли

A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down. · kacheli

ка́чественный

(occasionally, proscribed) (attributive) Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose; of high quality. · kachestvennyy

ка́чество

A characteristic or quality of a thing. · kachestvo

ка́чка

An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet. · kachka

качок

(bodybuilding) An excessively muscled person. · kachok

ка́ша

A porridge made from boiled buckwheat groats, or sometimes from other cereal groats. · kasha

кашевидный

Resembling or having the consistency of mush; semiliquid, pasty, or granular. · kashevidnyy

ка́шель

A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough. · kashel

кашеми́р

(mostly, uncountable) Fine, downy wool from beneath the outer hair of the Cashmere goat. · kashemir

ка́шица

A thin, watery porridge, formerly eaten primarily by the poor and the ill. · kashitsa

Кашми́р

A contested geographic region of South Asia in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, located between (and de facto divided between) India, Pakistan and China. · Kashmir

кашне́

A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck. · kashne

кашру́т

(Jewish law) The Jewish dietary laws, stating which foods are fit to eat. · kashrut

кашта́н

(uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour, as seen on the fruit of the chestnut tree. · kashtan

кашта́новый

Having a brown colour. · kashtanovyy

каю́к

(figuratively, in reference to curtains closing at the end of a stage show) An end or death. · kayuk

каю́т-компа́ния

(nautical) The living quarters of a ship designated for the commissioned officers other than the captain. · kayut-kompaniya

каю́та

A private room on a ship. · kayuta

кающийся

Sincerely penitent or feeling regret or sorrow, especially for one’s own actions. · kayushchiysya

кая́к

A type of small boat, covered over by a surface deck, powered by the occupant or occupants using a double-bladed paddle in a sitting position, from a hole in the surface deck. · kayak

ка́яться

(intransitive) To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with "of". · kayatsya

ква-ква́

(onomatopoeia) The vocal sound made by a frog or toad. · kva-kva

ква́гга

A southern-African subspecies of plains zebra, Equus quagga quagga, which went extinct in 1883. The upper parts of the animal were reddish brown, becoming paler behind and beneath, while the face, neck, and fore part of the body were marked by dark stripes. · kvagga

квадра́т

(engineering) A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc. · kvadrat

квадра́тик

A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc. · kvadratik

квадра́тный

(mathematics) Of a polynomial, equation or function, second-degree: involving the second power (square) of a variable but no higher powers, as ax^2 + bx + c. · kvadratnyy

квадриллио́н

(US, modern British and Australian, short scale) A thousand trillion (logic: 1,000 × 1,0004): 1 followed by fifteen zeros, 1015. · kvadrillion

квадрицепс

(anatomy) A muscle having four heads, especially the large extensor at the front of the thigh. · kvadritseps

кваза́р

(galaxy) An extragalactic object, starlike in appearance, that is among the most luminous and (putatively) the most distant objects in the universe. · kvazar

квак

(onomatopoeia) The vocal sound made by a frog or toad. · kvak

ква́канье

The call of a frog or toad. · kvakanye

ква́кать

(intransitive, of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its vocal sound. · kvakat

ква́кер

A believer of the Quaker faith and a member of the Society of Friends, known for their pacifist views. · kvaker

квалификатор

(computing, programming) A marker that qualifies or modifies another code element. · kvalifikator

квалифика́ция

An ability or attribute that aids someone's chances of qualifying for something; specifically, completed professional training. [from 17th c.] · kvalifikatsiya

квалифици́рованно

In an able manner; with great ability. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.] · kvalifitsirovanno

квалифици́рованный

Meeting the standards, requirements, and training for a position. · kvalifitsirovannyy

квалифици́ровать

To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities. · kvalifitsirovat

квалифицироваться

To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage. · kvalifitsirovatsya

квант

(physics) The smallest possible, and therefore indivisible, unit of a given quantity or quantifiable phenomenon. [from 20th c.] · kvant

квантифика́тор

(grammar) A word, such as all or many, that expresses the quantity of a related noun. · kvantifikator

квантифици́ровать

(logic) To relate a statement (called a predicate) to a given set using a quantifier—either for all (denoted ∀) or there exists (denoted ∃). · kvantifitsirovat

ква́нтовый

(physics) Involving quanta, quantum mechanics or other aspects of quantum physics. · kvantovyy

квантор

(logic) An operator, such as the universal quantifier (written as ∀) or the existential quantifier (∃), used in predicate calculus to indicate the degree that predicate is true for a specified set. · kvantor

кварк

(particle) In the Standard Model, one of a number of elementary subatomic particles having fractional electric charge that forms matter. They are theorized not to exist in isolation, but only in combinations in hadrons such as neutrons and protons or in quark–gluon plasmas. · kvark

Кварт

A municipality of Gironès, Comarques Gironines, Girona, Catalonia, Spain. · Kvart

ква́рта

(music) A musical interval which spans four degrees of the diatonic scale, for example C to F (C D E F). · kvarta

кварта́л

The smallest part of a town enclosed by streets. · kvartal

кварта́льный

Occurring once every quarter year (three months); taking place quarter-yearly. · kvartalnyy

кварте́т

(musician) A group of four musicians who perform classical music together. · kvartet

кварти́ра

(chiefly, North America, Australia, Philippines) A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat. · kvartira

квартирант

A person who lodges in another's house (compare tenant). · kvartirant

квартирантка

A person who lodges in another's house (compare tenant). · kvartirantka

квартирме́йстер

(military rank) An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies. Master of quartering. · kvartirmeyster

квартирова́ться

(intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady. · kvartirovatsya

квартиросъёмщик

(by extension) One who has possession of any place. · kvartirosyomshchik

квартпла́та

A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to lease a property. · kvartplata

кварц

(mineral) The most abundant mineral on the earth's surface, of chemical composition silicon dioxide, SiO2. It occurs in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous. Found in every environment. · kvarts

ква́сить

To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew. · kvasit

квасно́й патриоти́зм

(uncountable) Excessive patriotism or aggressive nationalism, especially with regards to foreign policy. · kvasnoy patriotizm

кватернион

(mathematics) A type of four-dimensional hypercomplex number consisting of a real part and three imaginary parts (real multiples of distinct, independent square roots of −1 denoted by i, j and k); commonly used in vector mathematics and as an alternative to matrix algebra in calculating the rotation of three-dimensional objects. · kvaternion

ква́шеная капу́ста

(countable, uncountable) A dish made by fermenting finely chopped cabbage. · kvashenaya kapusta

квашеный

Of food or drink, turned sour due to unwanted fermentation. · kvashenyy

кве́рху

In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin. · kverkhu

квест

(video games) A computer or video game of the genre characterized by investigation, exploration, puzzle-solving, interaction with game characters, and a focus on narrative rather than reflex-based challenges. · kvest

кви́ддич

A fictional ball game played between two teams of seven players riding flying broomsticks, using four balls and six elevated ring-shaped goals. · kviddich

квино́а

A goosefoot (Chenopodium quinoa) native to the Andes and cultivated for its edible seeds. · kvinoa

Квинс

A borough of New York City, New York, United States, one of five, situated on Long Island, north of Brooklyn, west of Nassau County. · Kvins

Кви́нсленд

A state of Australia, located in the northeastern part of the continent; a former British colony from 1859 to 1901. Capital: Brisbane. · Kvinslend

кви́нта

(music) The musical interval between one note and another five scale degrees higher (the fifth note in a scale) · kvinta

квинте́т

Any group of five members · kvintet

квинтиллио́н

(US, modern British and Australian, short scale) A billion billion: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 1018. · kvintillion

квинтэссе́нция

A thing that is the most perfect example of its type; the most perfect embodiment of something; epitome, prototype. · kvintessentsiya

квипрокво́

Something which is understood as something else; an equivocation. · kviprokvo

кви́слинг

(pejorative) A traitor who collaborates with the enemy. [from 1940] · kvisling

квита́нция

A written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received. · kvitantsiya

квито́к

A written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received. · kvitok

квиты

(colloquial, British) On equal monetary terms; neither owing or being owed. · kvity

кво́рум

The minimum number of members required for a group to officially conduct business and to cast votes, often but not necessarily a majority or supermajority. · kvorum

кво́та

That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share. · kvota

квотербек

(American football, Canadian football) An offensive back whose primary job is to pass the ball in a play. · kvoterbek

квоти́ровать

(transitive) To portion out (especially during a shortage of supply); to limit access to. · kvotirovat

кеба́б

(British) A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab. · kebab

Ке́вин

A en given name. · Kevin

кегельба́н

A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling/five-pin bowling · kegelban

ке́гли

A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling/five-pin bowling · kegli

ке́гля

A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling. · keglya

кедди

(by extension, golf, also, attributively) A person hired to assist a golfer by carrying their golf clubs and providing advice. · keddi

ке́ды

(US, Atlantic Canada, Australia, New Zealand) An athletic shoe with a soft, rubber sole. A trainer. · kedy

Кейнс

An English surname from Old French. · Keyns

кейс

A case used for carrying documents, especially for business. · keys

ке́йтеринг

(uncountable, UK, Philippines) The business of providing food and related services; foodservice. · keytering

кекс

A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing. · keks

Келли

A en given name. · Kelli

ке́львин

In the International System of Units, the base unit of thermodynamic temperature; 1⁄273.16 of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water. · kelvin

ке́льма

A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them. · kelma

Кёльн

The largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany, on the Rhine River. · Kyoln

ке́льнер

A male or female attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar. · kelner

ке́льнерша

A female attendant who serves customers in a restaurant, café, or similar. · kelnersha

ке́льтский

A branch of the Indo-European languages that was spread widely over Western and Central Europe in the pre-Christian era. · keltskiy

ке́льтский язы́к

A branch of the Indo-European languages that was spread widely over Western and Central Europe in the pre-Christian era. · keltskiy yazyk

ке́лья

A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person. [from 14th c.] · kelya

кема́рить

To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day. · kemarit

ке́мпер

(video games, derogatory) A person who stays in one spot during a first-person shooting game, to guard an item etc. · kemper

ке́мпинг

A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary. · kemping

кенгурёнок

Ellipsis of joey word. · kenguryonok

кенгуру́

A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia. [from 18th c.] · kenguru

кени́ец

A person from Kenya or of Kenyan descent. · keniyets

кени́йка

A person from Kenya or of Kenyan descent. · keniyka

кени́йский

Of, from, or pertaining to Kenya or the Kenyan people. · keniyskiy

Кения

A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Kenya. · Keniya

Ке́ннеди

A surname from Irish. · Kennedi

Ке́ннет

A en given name, originally used in Scotland, popular in all English-speaking countries in the 20th century. · Kennet

ке́ннинг

(poetry) A metaphorical compound or phrase, used especially in Germanic poetry (Old English or Old Norse) whereby a simple thing is described in an allusive way. · kenning

кенота́ф

A monument, generally in the form of an empty tomb, erected to honour the dead whose bodies lie elsewhere, especially members of the armed forces who died in battle. · kenotaf

Кент

A maritime county in southeast England bordered by East Sussex, Surrey, Greater London, the North Sea and the English Channel. · Kent

Кентавр

(constellation) A spring constellation of the northern sky (and autumn of the southern sky) with the outline of a centaur. It includes the stars Alpha Centauri (Rigil Kentaurus and Toliman), Proxima Centauri, and Hadar. · Kentavr

кентер

A gait of a horse between a trot and a gallop, consisting of three beats and a "suspension" phase, where there are no feet on the ground. Also describing this gait on other four-legged animals. · kenter

Ке́нтербери

A local government district with borough status of Kent, England, the City of Canterbury, formed in 1974, with its headquarters in the city itself. · Kenterberi

ке́пка

(obsolete) A respectful uncovering of the head. · kepka

Кера́ла

A state in southern India. Capital: Thiruvananthapuram (formerly known as Trivandrum). · Kerala

кера́мика

(uncountable) A hard, brittle, inorganic, nonmetallic material, usually made from a material, such as clay, then firing it at a high temperature. · keramika

керами́ческий

Made of material produced by the high-temperature firing of inorganic, nonmetallic rocks and minerals. · keramicheskiy

керами́ческий заво́д

(countable) A potter's shop or workshop, where pottery is made. · keramicheskiy zavod

керати́н

(protein) The protein of which hair and nails are composed. · keratin

Ке́рбер

(Greek mythology) The giant three-headed dog who guards the entrance to Hades; and one of the many offspring of Echidna and Typhon. · Kerber

ке́рвель испа́нский

Myrrhis odorata, a plant in the genus Myrrhis, in the family Apiaceae. · kervel ispanskiy

Керкира

An island of Greece, one of the Ionian Islands. The ancient name is Corcyra (Κόρκῡρα, more often Κέρκῡρα), in Modern Greek Kérkira (Κέρκυρα). · Kerkira