Meaning of масла | Babel Free

Definitions

1. butter (a soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk)
2. oil (petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant)

Equivalents

Examples

“S karoŭjaho małaka robiać masła, śmietanu, twaroh, syry.”

Butter, sour cream, quark and cheese are produced from milk.

“Here's the cook lying insensibly drunk on the kitchen floor, with a large bundle of fresh butter made up in the cupboard ready to sell for grease!”

“падліць масла ў агонь”

add fuel to the fire

“— Лампадным маслом отзывает да донником, — произнес, зевая, Базаров.”

"It reeks of lamp oil and sweet clover," said Bazarov with a yawn.

“Ён слу́хае работу цылі́ндраў, правяра́е тру́бкі маслаправодаў і лье з даўганосай маслёнкі ма́сла, зма́звае вал машы́ны.”

He listens to the operation of the cylinders, checks the pipes of the oil lines, and pours oil from a long-nosed oiler can to lubricate the shaft of the machine.

CEFR level