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Where does “ошарашивать” come from?

ошарашивать (Russian) comes from Russian -ивать — Used to form imperfective verbs from prefixed...

ошарашивать (Russian): to dumbfound, to strike dumb, to flabbergast, to...

Definitions

  1. to dumbfound, to strike dumb, to flabbergast, to...

Ancestry of “ошарашивать”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Russian-иватьUsed to form imperfective verbs from prefixed...
Every word from Russian -ивать →