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Koŝmaro William Auld Ed Enkonduko En La Originalan

The word "koŝmaro" means nightmare and is borrowed from French and Russian. It is a noun.

La vorto "koŝmaro" signifas "nightmare" kaj pruntas el la franca kaj rusa lingvoj. Ĝi estas substantivo.

Frequency Rank of Word 4162
Word koŝmaro
Meanings
    1979, William Auld (ed.), Enkonduko en la originalan literaturon de Esperanto, page 20.
Pinyin null
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cauchemar
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cauchemar#French
and
Russian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language
кошма́р
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80#Russian
(košmár).

Pronunciation

  • IPA
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet
    (
    key
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Esperanto_pronunciation
    )
    : /koʃˈmaro/
  • Hyphenation: koŝ‧ma‧ro
  • Rhymes:
    -aro
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:Esperanto/aro

Noun

koŝmaro (accusative singular

koŝmaron
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ko%C5%9Dmaron#Esperanto
, plural
koŝmaroj
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ko%C5%9Dmaroj#Esperanto
, accusative plural
koŝmarojn
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ko%C5%9Dmarojn#Esperanto
)

  1. nightmare
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nightmare#English
    • 1979, William Auld (ed.), Enkonduko en la originalan literaturon de Esperanto, page 20.
      Por mi, kiel por milionoj kaj milionoj da aliaj, helplingvo tia, kia vi konceptas ĝin, estas pli koŝmaro ol idealo.
      For me, as for millions and millions of others, an auxiliary language, like you conceive it, is more a nightmare than an ideal.
    Synonyms: (archaic)
    inkubo
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inkubo#Esperanto
    ,
    premsonĝo
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/premson%C4%9Do#Esperanto
    Hypernym:
    sonĝo
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/son%C4%9Do#Esperanto

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