Thread: Any Russian words spelled like English words???

Since some of the russian alphabet letters have the same "look" as English letters (although some letters have a different sound!) ... for "trivia" or "just for fun" purposes, do you know of any words in Russian (using Russian letters), where those same letters make a word using English letters?

Thanks,
-Dave

You mean "cognates"? (words that sound and mean the same)

there are a lot of them...

директор - Director
парашют - Parachute
футбол - Football
трактор -Tractor
класс - Class
шоколад - Chocolate

Just to name a few... I have seen a lot of technology ones also... Computer, for instance...

Watch out for false cognates, though, they sound like a word, but don't mean what they sound like...
For instance,

фамилия <> Family, it means "surname"
магаэин <> Magazine, it means "store"
маркa <> Mark, it means "stamp"

Lots more of both...

Unfortunately, I don't know of any words that use letters that look exactly like roman letters...
-Fantom

Thanks for responding, but that's not what I was looking for

In the russian alphabet, the letters:
A, B, E, K, M, H, O, P, C, T, Y
are also letters in the English alphabet (although some of those letters don't have the same sound).

Are there any Russian words that comprise ONLY of the above letters that ALSO form a word in the English language (not neccesarily the same meaning, and not neccesarily sounding the same either)?

Thanks,
-Dave

What about?

TATY
TOT
TEM
HO
HET
PECTOPAH
COK
KAK
BMECTE
MECTE
MOPE
CHOBA
BHOB
CEKPETA
CEKC
BPEMEHA
XPEHOBOE
XPOMAET
POTATOP
HABEPHOE
PYCCKOM

etc.

Я, наверное, действительно скучно!

Um....
То
Bор
A

My russian's limited so that's all I can think of.

MOPE COP MOP MAT POT OH HAM TOM

And for your next trick ... construct a sentence like this which is meaningful and grammatically correct in both Russian and English

ШАПКА / ШАПКУ
When handwritten it looks even better.

Сэнлвич-Sandwich
Питца-Pizza
Компютер-computer
Интервью-interview

Originally Posted by Denise

Сэнлвич-Sandwich
Питца-Pizza
Компютер-computer
Интервью-interview

сэндвич (бутерброд)
пицца
компьютер

Originally Posted by Denise

Сэнлвич-Sandwich
Питца-Pizza
Компютер-computer
Интервью-interview

You are missing the point of the thread. It's about words that LOOK the same IN CYRILLIC, as english words IN LATIN:

нам looks like the english word ham.
Сэндвич doesn't looks like Sandwich.

Thanks

Originally Posted by waxwing

And for your next trick ... construct a sentence like this which is meaningful and grammatically correct in both Russian and English

Ok, it's a bit rude and bizarre, but here goes:

МОРЕ, НОВО - РОЕТ СОСКУ.

I can't translate this from English into Russian because the library just closed, so I can't refer to a dictionary, but from Russian to English, I think it's "The sea, it is new - it digs the nipple"

Please feel free to correct me if this isn't right, and also to give a Russian translation.

МОРЕ, НОВО - РОЕТ СОСКУ.

"Вялый бродяга - поэт нахальный".
Hmm... in English it sounds more interesting. Anyway, the sense of it is like the sense of most palindromes.

And for your next trick ... construct a sentence like this which is meaningful and grammatically correct in both Russian and English

...mission...impossible...

Russian: МОСКВА
English: MOCKBA

ATOM

as for words that have the same meaning:

the word KATA is a practical examination in judo or a ghost fight.

you definitely have to look into foreign vocabulary.

MOPE is a great one

Originally Posted by MasterAdmin

Russian: МОСКВА
English: MOCKBA

Hmm... I thought we were supposed to have a spellcheck on this kind of stuff...

- I need two tickets to Dublin!
- Куда, блин?
- Туда, блин!