пробить
Russian
verb
Definitions
- to punch out
- to pierce, to go (through)
- to break (through)
- to make (a road, a tunnel)
- (colloquial) to issue a check/chit
- (colloquial) to pay to the cashier
- (colloquial) to press (for), to push (for), to struggle (for), to win, to bring off, to put across
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *probiti, *biti.
Origin
Proto-Slavic
*biti
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- битва Russian
- бить Russian
- *bʰeyH- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰeyh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- bić Polish
- *biti Proto-Slavic
- *probiti Proto-Slavic
- bít Czech
- бия Bulgarian
- бие Macedonian
- бити Ukrainian
- біць Belarusian
- бити Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- biś Lower Sorbian
- bić Upper Sorbian