zima

English translation: winter

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Russian term or phrase:	zima
English translation:	winter

03:31 Aug 14, 2002

Russian to English translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary

Russian term or phrase: zima

a name or place, perhaps a verb

winter

Explanation:
That's the normal meaning.

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Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:02

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I looked on another site and found that it meant winter, cold, chill, and snow in Czech, Polish and Serbo-croatian. I am familiar with the beverage, but it is also the name if a horse that I bought and I wondered as to the origination of the word. Thank you.
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Summary of answers provided

5 +15

winter

Jack Doughty

3 +10

Zima Station

Hecuba2 (X)

4 +1

River, town, station or poem...

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6 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +15

winter

Explanation:
That's the normal meaning.

Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:02
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in pair: 14525

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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

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xeni (X): I don't think there's any other.

3 mins

-> Nor do I. I wondered if it might be the familiar form of a name, like Дима for Дмитрий, but I don't know of any such name.

agree

zmejka: winter, wintertime

13 mins

-> Thank you.

agree

Emil Tubinshlak

56 mins

agree

Fernando Muela Sopeña

1 hr

agree

Dash

3 hrs

agree

Yelena.

3 hrs

agree

leff

4 hrs

agree

Yuri Dubrov

6 hrs

agree

Libero_Lang_Lab

8 hrs

agree

GaryG: Perhaps also the brand name of the beverage that's been unsuccessfully marketed to young people in recent years

8 hrs

-> Could be, I haven't heard of that one.

agree

Oleg Pashuk (X): Also, with GaryG

9 hrs

agree

Svetlana Beloshapkina: also agree with GaryG

13 hrs

agree

Sheila Hardie

1 day 5 hrs

agree

Marina Hayes (X)

1 day 8 hrs

agree

Olga Grabovsky

1 day 9 hrs

12 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +10

Zima Station

Explanation:
it's winter yes, but if a place is meant, that might be Zima - a railway station in Siberia, where the Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko was born

Hecuba2 (X)
PRO pts in pair: 8

1 day 25 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

River, town, station or poem...

Explanation:
http://http://www.admirk.ru/Spr_rai/zima.htm;
http://www.mojgorod.ru/irkutsk_obl/zima/ - town,river;

http://www.litera.ru/stixiya/authors/evtushenko.html - Evgeniy Evtushenko;
"Zima Station" (1956)

http://polnolunie.baikal.ru/zemskov/6.htm - Andrey Zemskov
"Zima Station" (1999)

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