Meaning of звер | Babel Free

Definitions

1. beast, wild animal
   animal-not-person, masculine
2. brute
   animal-not-person, masculine
3. Equivalent to 'animal': Any member of the kingdom Animalia of multicellular organisms that are usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall...

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Examples

“Нигде нечуть людскои мовы, / Тилько звирь вые, йде въ село / Де чуе трупы;”

No human speech can be heard anywhere. Only a beast howls on the outskirts of the village, gnawing at corpses.

“На тое-ж Аленку / Ўзяў жонкай цяпер, / Каб над ёй глуміўся / Распасьвяны зьвер?!”

Has he now taken Alenka as a wife only to have her tormented by a sordid brute?!

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