Pava is who? The meaning of the word "pava"

The great Russian poet immortalized this word with a bold stroke of his pen. In the tale of Alexander Sergeevich, the princess performed "like a pava". Has the poet praised her or laughed at her?

Definition

The meaning of the word is rather trivial, there is nothing high-spirited in it. Pava is a bird, more precisely, a female, and more precisely a female of a peacock. Just like a sparrow - a sparrow, an eagle - an eagle, a rooster has a chicken, so a peacock has a pava.

The meaning of the word "pava"

Always in human speech there are comparisons, including metaphors, when people are assigned attributes, qualities, models of behavior of animals. Squeaky like an eagle; Dirty as a pig; Awkward like an elephant. Even if in fact the animal does not possess these qualities, they are only invented by man (pigs are pretty clean animals, the elephant can be very quick and agile).

But not in the case of pavo. Have you seen a peacock female in a zoo? Have you noticed how she keeps herself? Watching these wonderful birds, you can see that they themselves give themselves the first place in the contest of bird beauty. Their movements are always smooth, there is no fuss, they look proudly, the beak is raised upward, as if indeed the pava is the queen among the birds!

All these qualities are appropriated to a woman, calling her pava:

• Note its external beauty;
• Proud posture;
• Slow and smooth movements;
• Calm, restrained manner of communication.

Neither fish nor fowl

But, as they say, everything is good in moderation. If the above qualities are expressed in a woman in good self-esteem, restraint and elegance, then, of course, "pava" is a compliment.

When she is haughty, proud, prejudiced, her behavior is inappropriate, there is nothing to be proud of, although in this case it can be called a pava. Each stick has two ends.

There is also an expression about the pav and the crow: the pier neither to that, nor to this detachment of birds of the discussed person can not be carried. Everyone here takes it as they want. You can be offended by uncertainty, and you can and rejoice in the golden mean.

In true sense, albeit allegorical, the pava is a word with an exceptionally positive meaning. Majestic, proud, sedate, stately, slender, beautiful. And you wanted to "pass through"?

Negative coloring "pave" gives human features, no relation to peacocks do not have. When a woman is attractive, but does not know how to appreciate it, she behaves with everyone around her cheekily, arrogantly, inappropriately, disrespectfully, speaks loudly, much, not on business - this, unfortunately, is also pava. Only they say this already with irony, mentioning the chicken more in the subtext, because the peacock belongs to the order of the Gentile.

They were domesticated in Ancient Egypt, Asyria, Arabia, they were kept in the palaces of Rome and Greece, sometimes almost like chickens. Some gourmets even used their eggs for food. Although, of course, more appreciated the beauty of their plumage.

From Pushkin to the present day

The word "pava" is unlikely to be heard in a conversation at a nearby table in a cafe or read in a modern detective. It has lost its popularity, demand, like many others (bass, sail, ryadit).

Language - as a living organism, it develops, grows, some cells (words) die (are forgotten), new ones appear.

Several hundred years ago, the great poet said a compliment to the heroine of his work. If the word "pava" was not popular then widely used, after the Swan Princess, probably, many proud, confident beauties heard it in their address.

Although, if specially to pay attention, it turns out, quite often in the literature such a comparison was used. There is a "pava" in Turgenev, Chekhov, Derzhavin, Melnikov-Pechersky, Pasternak, later - in the song of Egorov.

It is possible that this word will return to the active Russian language, and again clouds will float, girls will go, roses will spread ...