nose: Entire Entry

нћс nose; sense of smell

nose
У негћ бІл ширћкий, приплєснутый нћс.	He had a flat, broad nose.
sense of smell
Чџткий нћс ітих живћтных не даёт им пропђсть в лесџ.	Thanks to their keen sense of smell, these animals can survive in the woods.

Semantics

This entry is primarily concerned with the use of the word нћс denoting the human nose as part of the face and the organ of smell (also serving as part of the respiratory system). However, it can refer to animals, too. Specific words or expressions referring only to animals are so marked. Common sense will dictate which of the expressions listed in this entry can or cannot be used to refer to animals or humans.

The word нћс is also used to mean "the sense of smell, the ability to smell" with reference to animals. This meaning is also described in this entry. The meaning "forward part of a vessel" (на носџ кораблї "on the bow of the ship") is not described in this dictionary.

Morphology

нћс SE Loc. (в/на) -џ; m.in.noun

NB Irregular in phrases не покђзывать нћсу [нћса is also possible] "to stay out of sight"; комђр нћсу [нћса is also possible] не подтћчит "no one will smell a rat"; ќз носу [из нћсу and из нћса are also possible] "from one's nose," etc.; зђ нос [за нћс is also possible] "by the nose," etc.; нђ нос [на нћс is also possible] "onto one's nose," etc.; говорќть себљ пћд нос [под нћс is also possible] "to mumble"; пћд носом [под нћсом is also possible] "under one's nose" (literally, and also in the meaning "very close").

Syntax

Syntactic actants

Actant 1: whose nose it is
(a) Genitive
(b) Possessive

Нћс Николђя Ивђновича имљл весьмђ своеобрђзную фћрму.	Nikolai Ivanovich's nose had a unique shape.
Жџчкин рћзовый нћс бІл похћж на шлїпку грибђ.	Zhuchka's [a dog] pink nose looked like a mushroom cap.
NB When the word нћс functions as a subject and has no descriptive modifier, the construction нћс у + Genitive is often preferred to (a) and (b), above:
Нћс у Николђя Ивђновича бІл большћй и крђсный.	Nikolai Ivanovich's nose was large and red.

Lexical Relationships

Synonyms

рубќльник Highly Colloquial and Rude	nose
NB The common meaning of рубќльник is "electric circuit breaker."
паїльник Highly Colloquial and Rude	nose
NB The common meaning of паїльник is "soldering iron."
рџль Highly Colloquial and Rude	nose
NB The common meaning of рџль is "rudder."
NB The above three words are often used to refer to a large nose.
ћрган обонїния	the olfactory organ
NB The expressions listed below are synonymous to нћс only in the meaning "the sense of smell":
обонїние; нєх; чутьё	sense of smell
NB The words нєх and чутьё can refer only to animals' sense of smell. They can refer to humans only in the figurative sense of a special perceptiveness, a feel for something.

Diminutives

нћсик; носќшко

nose

Augmentatives

носќще

nose

Syntactic derivatives

носовћй	*nasal, nose (as modifier)*
носовћй платћк	handkerchief
носовђя пћлость Anatomical	sinus
носовћй звџк Linguistic	nasal sound
-нћсый	-nosed
длиннонћсый	long-nosed

Parts

перенћсица	bridge of the nose
кћнчик нћса_g	tip of the nose
крІлья нћса_g	the wings of the nose, the nostrils (the cartilage of the nose which forms the nostrils, including the areas immediately surrounding the nostrils)
нћздри	nostrils
носовђя перегорћдка Anatomical	nasal membrane
носовђя пћлость Anatomical	sinus

Appearance, conditions, and sensations

Size and shape; aesthetics

большћй нћс; крџпный нћс; здорћвый нћс Colloquial; здоровљнный нћс Colloquial	large nose, prominent nose
*носђтый Colloquial;* большенћсый**	big-nosed, having a large nose
тћлстый нћс	fat nose
толстонћсый	having a big, fat nose
мђленький нћс	little nose
тћнкий нћс	thin nose
тонконћсый	thin-nosed, having a thin nose
длќнный нћс	long nose
длиннонћсый	long-nosed
корћткий нћс	short nose
прямћй нћс	straight nose
классќческий нћс	classical nose
грљческий нћс	Greek nose
рќмский нћс	Roman nose
порћдистый нћс	aristocratic nose
NB Порћдистый нћс is a description often given to a prominent and straight nose, sometimes with a small hump (горбќнка) just below the bridge.
прђвильный нћс; нћс прђвильной фћрмы_g	well-formed nose
орлќный нћс	aquiline nose
нћс с горбќнкой_i	large thin nose with a small hump
NB The description нћс с горбќнкой, above, is often meant as a compliment, as an acknowledgement of an interesting-looking nose.
Вћт портрљт Ахмђтовой. Нћс с горбќнкой, рљзко очљрченные скџлы, чёлка на лбџ.	Here is a portrait of Akhmatova — an aquiline nose, cheek-bones sharply defined, bangs on her forehead.
нћс пџговкой_i; нћс кнћпочкой_i; нћс-пџговка	button nose
вздёрнутый нћс; курнћсый нћс	snub nose
курнћсый	snub-nosed
кривћй нћс	crooked nose
кривонћсый	crooked-nosed, having a crooked nose
горбђтый нћс	a large, ill-shaped nose with a hump in it
горбонћсый	hook-nosed
хќщный нћс	beaklike nose
утќный нћс	long, flat nose resembling the bill of a duck
ћстрый нћс; вћстрый нћс Substandard	sharp nose, needle nose
остронћсый; востронћсый Substandard	sharp-nosed, needle-nosed
*заострќться [no Impf.]: у N_g нћс_n заострќлся*	N's nose became pointed
NB The above expression refers to one of the features of a face that has become thin.
От болљзни ћн стрђшно похудљл, глазђ ввалќлись, нћс заострќлся.	He had gotten terribly thin from his illness, his eyes were sunken and his nose pointy.
заострённый нћс	pointed nose
тупћй нћс	blunt nose
плћский нћс; приплєснутый нћс; сплєщенный нћс	flat, broad nose
ширћкий нћс	wide nose
нћс крючкћм_i; крючковђтый нћс	hooked nose
нћс картћшкой_i	large bulbous nose
крџглый нћс	round nose (not necessarily large)
мясќстый нћс	fleshy nose
костќстый нћс	bony nose
некрасќвый нћс	an unattractive nose
безобрђзный нћс; урћдливый нћс	ill-formed nose, ugly nose
NB The characteristics shown below are commonly used when describing a woman's or a child's nose:
точёный нћс (or нћсик); изїщный нћс	exquisite nose
очаровђтельный нћс (or нћсик)	charming nose
хорћшенький нћс (or нћсик); мќленький нћс (or нћсик); прелљстный нћс (or нћсик); аккурђтненький нћс (or нћсик)	cute little nose

Color

крђсный нћс	red nose
В кћмнату вошёл Кћля с крђсным от хћлода нћсом.	Kolya walked into the room, his nose red from the cold.
краснонћсый	red-nosed
сќний нћс	purple nose
лилћвый нћс	purplish nose
сќзый нћс	bluish nose
Сџдя по егћ сќзому нћсу, ћн лєбит крљпкие напќтки.	Judging by his bluish nose, he likes strong drink.
NB The colors listed above are perceived as the result of excessive drinking or exposure to cold.
бљлый нћс	white nose
восковћй нћс	waxy nose
NB The expression бљлый нћс is likely to refer to a frost-bitten nose, or to the nose of a corpse, while the expression восковћй нћс is likely to be said of a dying person or a corpse.
нћс в угрїх_p; угревђтый нћс	nose covered with blackheads

A dirty nose

грїзный нћс; нћс в N_loc/p	dirty nose, a nose smeared with N
Вљчно нћс в грязќ у ітого ребёнка! Тћ в кђше, тћ в чернќлах!	That child's nose is always dirty! First it's the cereal, then the ink!
вІмазать [no Impf.] нћс_a N_i (or в N_p); вІпачкать [no Impf.] нћс_a N_i (or в N_p); измђзать [no Impf.] нћс_a N_i; испђчкать [no Impf.] нћс_a N_i	to get one's nose dirty, smeared with N
У тебї нћс вІпачкан в морћженом.	You've got ice cream on your nose.

A nose exposed to cold

бљлый нћс; отморћженный нћс; обморћженный нћс	white nose, i.e. frost-bitten nose
мёрзнуть/замёрзнуть (or замерзђть/замёрзнуть): у N_g нћс_n мёрзнет (or замерзђет)	N's nose is freezing
краснљть/покраснљть: у N_g нћс_n краснеет (от хћлода_g or морћза_g)	N's nose is getting red (from the cold)
белљть/побелљть: у N_g нћс_n белљет (от хћлода_g or морћза_g)	N's nose is getting white (from the cold)
растирђть/растерљть нћс_a	to rub one's nose
Да у тебї нћс совсљм бљлый! ТІ егћ отморћзил. Скорљй растирђй егћ вђрежкой!	Your nose is dead-white! You've gotten it frostbitten. Hurry and rub it with your mitten!

A nose exposed to sun

загорђть/загорљть: у N_g нћс_n загорљл	N's nose got sunburned
обгорђть/обгорљть: у N_g нћс_n обгорљл	N's nose is badly sunburned
облезђть/облљзть: у N_g нћс_n облљз;	N's nose had peeled
лупќться/облупќться: у N_g нћс_n облупќлся
Вќдишь, тІ слќшком мнћго былђ на сћлнце, тепљрь нћс лџпится!	See, you were in the sun too long, and now your nose is peeling!
облџпленный (or облупќвшийся) нћс	a peeled nose, i.e. a nose that has recently been peeling
веснџшчатый нћс; нћс в веснџшках_p	a freckled nose

Sensations, medical conditions, and their treatment

мћкрый нћс; соплќвый нћс	a runny nose
распџхший нћс	a swollen nose
крђсный нћс	a red nose
воспалённый нћс	an inflamed nose
бІть [no Pf.] мћкро: у N_g под нћсом_i мћкро; тљчь/потљчь: у N_g из нћса_g течёт; тљчь/потљчь: у N_g сћпли_n из нћса_g текџт	N's nose is running
распухђть/распџхнуть: у N_g нћс_n распџх	N's nose is swollen
заклђдывать/заложќть: у N_g нћс_a заложќло; заклђдывать/заложќть: N_d нћс_a заложќло; заклђдывать/заложќть: у N_g нћс_n залћжен Colloquial	N's nose is stuffed up
NB The verb заложќть, above, can only be used with parts of the body, not with the person; that is, one's nose, ears, chest, lungs can be залћжены "stuffed up," but it is impossible to use this verb to create a Russian equivalent of "I am stuffed up."
сћхнуть/вІсохнуть: у N_g в носџ_loc сћхнет	N's nasal membrane feels dry
сџхость в носџ_loc	nasal dryness
*щекотђть/защекотђть [Pf-begin]: у N_g в носџ_loc щекћчет*	N's nose tickles
*щипђть/защипђть [Pf-begin]: у N_g в носџ_loc щќплет*	N's nose stings
*чесђться/зачесђться [Pf-begin]: у N_g в носџ_loc чљшется*	N's nose itches
*шмІгать/шмІгнуть [Pf-once] нћсом_i*	to sniff
вытирђть/вІтереть нћс_a	to wipe one's nose
*ковырїть/поковырїть [Pf-awhile] в носџ_loc*	to pick one's nose
сморкђть/вІсморкать нћс_a; сморкђться/вІсморкаться	to blow one's nose
*чихђть/чихнџть [Pf-once]*	to sneeze
Апчхќ!	Achoo!
Бџдь здорћв!	Gesundheit! Bless you!
нђсморк	congestion, head cold
Дћктор, менї замџчил нђсморк. Из нћса всё врљмя течёт, нћс залћжен тђк, что дышђть нљчем. Прихћдится всё врљмя сморкђться, нћс распџх и вљсь крђсный.	Doctor, this cold is wearing me out. My nose is running all the time. I'm so stuffed up I can't breathe. I have to blow my nose all the time. It's swollen and all red.
козївки Colloquial	dried mucus
сћпли	snot
врђч џхо-гћрло-нћс; отоларингћлог Formal	ear, nose, and throat doctor, otolaryngologist
кђпли для нћса_g; кђпли в нћс_a; кђпли от нђсморка_g	nose drops, nasal antihistamine
закђпывать/закђпать кђпли_a в нћс_a	to put in nose drops
носовћй платћк	handkerchief
Пљтя, вІтри нћс, у тебї под нћсом мћкро! И прекратќ ковырїть в носџ! У тебї љсть носовћй платћк.	Pete, wipe your nose, it's running! And stop picking your nose! You have a handkerchief.
провђливаться/провалќться: у N_g нћс_n провалќлся	N's nose collapsed
NB The above expression describes a medical condition resulting from a disease such as syphilis.
провалќвшийся нћс	a collapsed nose

Inflicting and sustaining injuries

заљхать [no Impf.] N_d в нћс_a (or пћ носу_d) Colloquial; давђть/дђть N_d в нћс_a (or пћ носу_d) Colloquial	to punch N in the nose, to give N one in the nose
разбивђть/разбќть N_d/(себљ_d) нћс_a (в крћвь_a); расквђшивать/расквђсить N_d/(себљ_d) нћс_a Colloquial; расшибђть/расшибќть N_d/(себљ_d) нћс_a Colloquial	to give N/oneself a bloody nose, to punch N in the nose
NB The injury described above involves only the soft tissue, not the bone.
разбќтый нћс; расквђшенный нћс Colloquial	a bloody nose (from being struck)
тљчь/потљчь: у N_g из нћса_g крћвь_n течёт	N's nose is bleeding
ломђть/сломђть N_d/(себљ_d) нћс_a; перебивђть/перебќть N_d нћс_a	*to break N's/one's nose*
перебќтый нћс	a broken nose
шмїкаться/шмїкнуться нћсом_i Colloquial	to fall flat on one's face

Make-up

пџдрить/напџдрить нћс_a	to powder one's nose
напџдренный нћс_a	a powdered nose

Sniffing and smelling

чџткий нћс	a sensitive nose
ћстрый нћс Colloquial	a sharp nose, i.e. a good sense of smell
NB The above two expressions are used only for animals.
нєхать/понєхать N_a	to sniff N
Ї понєхал цветћк. Ћн оказђлся совершљнно без зђпаха.	I sniffed the flower. It turned out to be completely without a scent.
Собђка понєхала вћздух и заскулќла.	The dog sniffed the air and whimpered.
потїгивать/потянџть нћсом_i (вћздух_a)	to sniff (the air)
Ћн потянџл нћсом и вљсело сказђл: «Огћ, бифштљксом пђхнет!»	He sniffed and said cheerfully, "Hey, I smell steak!"
чџвствовать/почџвствовать зђпах_a N_g (or Adj зђпах); ощущђть/ощутќть зђпах_a N_g (or Adj зђпах)	*to smell N, to catch an Adj* smell**
ударїть/удђрить: зђпах_n N_g¹ удђрил N_d² в нћс_a; шибђть/шибанџть: зђпах_n N_g¹ шибанџл N_d² в нћс_a Colloquial	*the odor of N¹ assailed N's²* sense of smell (lit. "hit N² in the nose"), N² was overpowered by the smell of N¹**
NB The verbs удђрить and шибанџть, above, are used only for a strong, unpleasant odor:
Зђпах хлћрки удђрил нђм в нћс.	The smell of chlorine was overpowering.
поднимђть/поднїть нћс_a	to raise one's nose
NB The above expression is often said of a dog trying to catch a scent.
затыкђть/заткнџть нћс_a; зажимђть/зажђть нћс_a	to hold one's nose (in order to avoid an unpleasant odor)

Breathing

*дышђть [no Pf.] через нћс_a (or нћсом_i)*	to breathe through one's nose
*вдыхђть/вдохнџть [Pf-once] через нћс_a*	to inhale through one's nose
*выдыхђть/вІдохнуть [Pf-once] через нћс_a*	to exhale through one's nose
NB Note the different options used with дышђть vs. вдыхђть and выдыхђть.
*фІркать/фІркнуть [Pf-once] нћсом_i*	to snort
*сопљть/посопљть [Pf-awhile] нћсом_i*	to puff, to wheeze, to breathe heavily through the nose

Speaking

в нћс_a; гнусђво	nasally, twangy
NB The adverbial expressions above are used only with verbs of speaking or singing:
	to speak through one's nose, to speak in a twangy voice
произносќть в нћс (or гнусђво)	to pronounce nasally, through one's nose
пљть в нћс (or гнусђво)	to sing in a twangy voice
гнусђвить [no Pf.]; гундћсить [no Pf.] Substandard	to speak through one's nose, to speak in a twangy voice
гнусђвый гћлос; гундћсый гћлос Substandard	nasal, adenoidal voice
говорќть/проговорќть себљ_d пћд нос_a (or под нћс_a)	to mumble under one's breath

Movements and gestures

мћрщить/намћрщить нћс_a	to wrinkle one's nose
NB The above phrase is used in various situations, often to describe a child about to cry.
мћрщить/смћрщить нћс_a	to turn one's nose up, to wrinkle one's nose
NB The above phrase is often used as a description of distaste, disgust, or disdain.
надевђть/надљть очкќ_a (or пенснљ_a) на нћс_a (or нђ нос_a)	to put one's glasses/pince-nez on
терљться/потерљться нћсом_i о N_a	to nuzzle N
Мќшенька потёрся нћсом о мђмин рукђв, положќл гћловку љй на колљни и заснџл.	Little Misha nuzzled his mother's sleeve, put his head in her lap, and fell asleep.
*уткнџться [no Impf.] нћсом_i в N_a*	to bury one's nose in N
Мђльчик уткнџлся нћсом в мђмину кћфту и зарыдђл.	The little boy buried his nose in his mother's jersey and burst into tears.
Вмљсто отвљта ћн уткнџлся нћсом в газљту, давђя понїть, что разговћр окћнчен.	Instead of answering, he buried his nose in the newspaper, making it clear that the conversation was over.
тІкаться/ткнџться нћсом_i в N_a	to push one's nose against N
NB The above expression is often said of an animal showing affection or curiosity.
хватђть/схватќть N_a за нћс_a (or зђ нос_a)	to grab N by the nose
*дёргать/дёрнуть [Pf-once] N_a за нћс_a (or зђ нос_a)*	to pull N by the nose
*щёлкать/щёлкнуть [Pf-once] N_a пћ носу*	*to flick N's* nose**
NB The above expression describes a friendly gesture, most often by an adult to a child, in which the middle finger is released from the thumb to gently strike the nose.
тІкать/ткнџть котёнка_a (or щенкђ_a, etc.) нћсом_i в N_a	to push the kitten's nose (or the puppy's nose, etc.) into N, to rub the kitten's nose (or puppy's, etc.) in N
NB The expression ткнџть нћсом в N_a, where N denotes some kind of excretion, is used to describe the training of a pet that is being reminded that excreting N will not be tolerated. This expression is used colloquially in the figurative meaning of "to rub somebody's nose in N" i.e., to draw somebody's attention to a mistake or blunder he or she has committed.

Sample texts

Чёрные, как смћль, вћлосы, ћстрый, с лёгкой горбќнкой нћс, из-под чёрных бровљй — ћгненные глазђ на нљсколько блљдном, слћвно нерџсском, слегкђ бронзовђто-олќвковом лицљ, — всё изумќло Держђвина. [В. Ходасљвич, Держђвин]	Hair black as pitch, with a sharp, aquiline nose; from under black eyebrows — burning eyes in a somewhat pale, not quite Russian face, with a bronzed olive cast to it — all of it amazed Derzhavin. [V. Khodasevich, "Derzhavin"]
Онќ спустќлись к свђлке и, зажимђя носІ, пошлќ шагђть через кџчи отбрћсов... [Стругђцкие, Трџдно бІть бћгом]	*They went down to the dump and holding their noses went tromping through piles of garbage... [A. and B. Strugatskiy, It's Hard to be a God]*
У негћ тряслђсь головђ, шевелќлись тћнкие гџбы и двќгался в тђкт словђм кћнчик длќнного нћса.	His head shook, his thin lips moved, and the tip of his long nose wiggled to the rhythm of the words.
У Пљти нђсморк, ћн не мћжет дышђть нћсом.	Pete has a cold, and he can't breathe through his nose.
У менї бІл тђк залћжен нћс, что ї дђже не чџвствовал зђпаха кћфе.	I was so congested that I couldn't even smell the coffee.
Онђ [ишачћк] довљрчиво тёрлась мїгким нћсиком о нђши рџки [О. Перћвская, Ребїта и зверїта]	*She [the little donkey] trustingly rubbed her soft nose on our hands. [O. Perovskaya, Children and Baby Animals]*