Ботаник
The word ботаник means botanist. It declines perfectly regularly, assuming of course you know the seven-letter spelling rule:
| Sg | Pl | |
| Nom | ботаник | ботаники |
| Acc | ботаника | ботаников |
| Gen | ||
| Pre | ботанике | ботаниках |
| Dat | ботанику | ботаникам |
| Ins | ботаником | ботаниками |
A ботаник is a person who studies ботаника botany. (Note that the nominative singular ботаника ‘botany’ is written the same way as the accusative/genitive singular of ботаник ‘botanist.’) The definition of ботаник on ru.wikitionary.org runs something like this:
| Ботаник — человек, имеющий образование в области ботаники или профессионально занимающийся этой наукой. | A botanist is a person educated in the field of botany or one who is a professional in that science. |
Some botanists have extraordinary lives:
| Мой дядя — ботаник, который специализируется по растительности амазонских джунглей. Он ползает по лесам, собирая образцы и стараясь избегать внимания местных людоедов. | My uncle is a botanist who specializes in the vegetation of the Amazonian jungles. He crawls around the forests gathering samples and trying to avoid the attention of the local cannibals. |
That, however, is not the image associated with the word in Russian pop culture. There a ботаник is someone who is involved in completely uninteresting and testosterone-deficient activities, in other words a geek or a nerd:
| — Лен, мне очень понравился твой Саша. Какой он красавец! — Ты шутишь? Он полнейший ботаник, всё время дома сидит, перелистывая энциклопедию. Как только вернётся Паша, я Сашку наверно брошу. |
“Lena, I really liked your boyfriend, Alexandr. He's a real stud!” “Are you kidding? He's a complete geek. He just stays at home all the time, leafing through the encylopedia. As soon as Pavel gets back, I'm probably going to dump Aleksandr.” |
2 comments
ботаник(rude)=задрОт=ебанькО=чмЫрь=лошАра=очкАрик=мудАк=мудИла с нИжнего ТагИла
Well, it seems that the use of ботаник in sense of a nerd becomes obsolete. The word гик is often used in that sense by younger people and ботаник is used by older people.
Plus we have a somewhat rude word задрот, which is certainly offensive while гик is not.
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