Crossword clues for cyrillic
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1842, in reference to the Slavic alphabet, from St. Cyril, 9c. apostle of the Slavs, who supposedly invented it. The alphabet replaced earlier Glagolitic. The name Cyril is Late Latin Cyrillus, from Greek Kyrillos, literally "lordly, masterful," related to kyrios "lord, master" (see church).
Wiktionary
a. Denoting an alphabet devised for writing the Old Church Slavonic liturgical language, and its adaptations used for several languages of Eastern Europe and Asia; of or relating to this writing system. n. The Cyrillic alphabet or writing system.
Wikipedia
Cyrillic is a Unicode block containing the characters used to write the most widely used languages with a Cyrillic orthography. The core of the block is based on the ISO 8859-5 standard, with additions for minority languages and historic orthographies.
Cyrillic refers to the Cyrillic script. It may also refer to:
- Early Cyrillic alphabet, used for Old Church Slavonic
- Any of the Cyrillic alphabets, language specific alphabets based on the Cyrillic script
- Cyrillic (Unicode block), one of the Unicode blocks with Cyrillic characters
Cyrillic is an album by American jazz saxophonist Dave Rempis with drummer Frank Rosaly, which was recorded in 2009 and released on 482 Music.
Usage examples of "cyrillic".
A lot of the signs in Pinsk were in the Cyrillic alphabet Byelorussians used.
His actions matched his words as his eyes roamed over the curved, padded wall of the closed deadlight, to the wire-cased bulb then back down to the row of handles labeled with incomprehensible Cyrillic characters.
It was typed in Cyrillic capitals and contained photostats of letters and transcripts of tapped phone calls.
A large wooden board was fixed to the wall near the sales window, with plastic sliders upon which, in Cyrillic, were the names of various destinations.
To strengthen those ties, Turkey helped the Central Asian republic of Azerbaijan to change from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet, which has been used in Turkey since the 1920s, and which Azerbaijan formally adopted in January 1992.
There ain't no rules but theirs and they get a story in this Cyrillic borsch house?
When everything went to hell and the CPU began spewing out random bits, the result, on a CLI machine, was lines and lines of perfectly formed but random characters on the screen--known to cognoscenti as "going Cyrillic.
Marcus Garvey had been thrown together around an enormous old Russian air scrubber, a rectangular thing daubed with Rastafarian symbols, Lions of Zion and Black Star Liners, the reds and greens and yellows over-laying wordy decals in Cyrillic script.
I would just have to hope that the bus routes had not been changed or, if they had, that it would be possible to navigate my way by reading the Cyrillic information panels on the front of the buses.
The handwriting was in the Cyrillic alphabet, not the Greek that Ivan had half-expected.
In a box on one of the tables I found a yellowing typescript in the Cyrillic alphabet.
The machine was eventually able to translate Azerbaijani-language newspapers printed in a non-standard version of the Cyrillic alphabet.
For instance, the Cyrillic alphabet itself (the one still used today in Russia) is descended from an adaptation of Greek and Hebrew letters devised by Saint Cyril, a Greek missionary to the Slavs in the ninth century a.
For instance, the Cyrillic alphabet itself (the one still used today in Russia) is descended from an adaptation of Greek and Hebrew letters devised by Saint Cyril, a Greek missionary to the Slavs in the ninth century A.
The incongruity amused her, and only with difficulty could she convince the part of her brain in charge of reading that this was the Latin, not the Cyrillic alphabet.