azbuka

Meaning

Noun

• The Cyrillic alphabet.

Origin

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