Chelovek

“I am a dangerous individual vredny chelovek,” he explained. ❋ Daniel Treisman (2011)

“Byl by chelovek, a statya naydyotsya,” the prosecutors joked. ❋ Daniel Treisman (2011)

The Bol'shoi slovar' russkogo zhargona gives: "1. golova; 2. drug, priyatel'; 3. dushevnobol'noi; 4. prostak, prostofilya; 5. neopytnyi v chem-l. chelovek, novichok v chem-l. dele" we'll leave out of account minor meanings like "MI-8 helicoptor" and "gonorrhea". ❋ Unknown (2004)

But Mr. Wilson's "Be quiet, young man, you're not dealing with a brother" as a rendition of "Potishe, molodoj chelovek, ty ne s svoim bratom svjazalsja" is a typical schoolboy's howler: the dictionary definitions of the individual words do not render their idiomatic meaning in sequence. ❋ Karlinsky, Simon (1971)

It never means a ` citizen of the USSR 'or any other kind of person in Russian, though its adjectival derivative sovetskii can be used substantively alone or followed by chelovek ` person,' to mean a ` Soviet person. ' ❋ Unknown (1989)

In Russian, chelovek ` black person 'is a commoner, and his chërnaia rabota ` black work' is heavy, unskilled labor, while in German the same phrase, Schwartzarbeit, means ` illegal, non-union work. ' ❋ Unknown (1979)