Noun: rubashka
| Singular | rubashka |
| Plural | rubashkas; rubashki |
Sample Sentences
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A soldier once came to me in Little Russia in a clean rubashka (shirt, belted and worn as a coat), and boasted that soldiers change their rubashki once a week. [1921, Francis McCullagh, “The Burial of the Tsar”, in A Prisoner of the Reds: The Story of a British Officer Captured in Siberia, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 183, column 4:]
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Like Berl [Katznelson], he [Eliyahu Golomb] wore a sort of uniform—a rubashka that buttoned down the side and a pair of creased khaki trousers. I don’t remember ever having seen him in a suit. [1975 September 7, Golda Meir, “My Life: Part 1: Battle with the British”, in Sunday Telegraph, number 758, London, →OCLC, page 6, column 6:]
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‘Ivan the Whisker’ slapped his thigh and then reached down into the deep pocket of his rubashka and drew out a bottle. [1992, Leon Berk, “With the partisans — free at last!”, in Destined to Live: Memoirs of a Doctor with the Russian Partisans, Melbourne, Vic.: Paragon Press, →ISBN, part 2, page 132:]
Nouns inflected like rubashka
kosovorotka,
baranka,
barista,
matrioshka,
sooshka,
matryoshka,
Avanguardista,
nalivka,
zakuska,
rubashka,
Camorrista,
nastoyka,
stotinka,
khrushchevka,
stilyaga,
lanista,
zemlyanka,
babushka,
dacha,
vedutista, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian руба́шка (rubáška).