azbuka

From Slavic languages, especially using the Cyrillic script, compare Russian а́збука (ázbuka) (also Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, Ukrainian), from the first Old Church Slavonic letter names аз (az) and буки (búki) (compare Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos) = ἄλφα (álpha) + βῆτα (bêta) or Persian الف‎ (alef) + باء‎ (bâ)), from Proto-Slavic *(j)azъ, *buky.

azbuka

1. The Cyrillic alphabet.

From initial names of the first letters of Cyrillic alphabet, az (а) and buki (б).

• IPA^(key): /ǎzbuka/
• Hyphenation: az‧bu‧ka

àzbuka f (Cyrillic spelling а̀збука)

1. (uncountable) alphabet (based on the Cyrillic script)