![]() ![]() The famous actress, Sarah Bernhardt, depicted with Borzoi, by Georges Clairin, French painter However, the Borzoi Club of America and the Borzoi Club UK both prefer Borzoi as the form for both singular and plural forms. The most commonly used plural form is the regular formation Borzois, which is the only plural cited in most dictionaries. ![]() Other Russian sighthound breeds are stepnaya borzaya (from the steppe), called stepnoi and krimskaya borzaya (from the Crimea), called krimskoi. In modern Russian, the breed commonly called the Borzoi is officially known as russkaya psovaya borzaya. The name psovaya derived from the word psovina, which means 'wavy, silky coat', just as hortaya (as in hortaya borzaya) means shorthaired. Borzáya sobáka ('fast dog') is the basic term for sighthounds used by Russians, though sobáka is usually dropped. ![]() Borzói is the masculine singular form of an archaic Russian adjective that means 'fast'. The system by which Russians over the ages named their sighthounds was a series of descriptive terms, not actual names. The Borzoi ( borzaya, meaning 'sighthound' in Russian), also called the Russian Hunting Sighthound ( Russian: ру́сская псовая борзая, romanized: russkaya psovaya borzaya 'Russian long-haired sighthound') and known as the Russian Wolfhound until 1936, is a sighthound hunting breed of domestic dog. Medium length, silky and wavy, short length ![]()
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