баранка
noun
Transcription (the accent is shown in capital letters):
[ba-RAN-ka]
Translation / meaning:
steering wheel
Examples:
- Будь проклят тот день, когда я сел за баранку этого пылесоса! (Цитата из фильма "Кавказская пленница")Damn the day when I sat down at the wheel of this vacuum cleaner! (Quote from the movie "Prisoner of the Caucasus", by vacuum cleaner the speaker means his old van)
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