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That’s a typo. The pronunciation is close to “dee-yet mah-ross”

• dang 7y ago
  Belated, but we fixed the typo above.
• izacus 7y ago
  Yep, we called him "Dedek Mraz" in the balkans which also literaly translates into Grandfather Frost. (Although we did celebrate christmas since the anti-religion clampdown wasn't that aggressive in Yugoslavia.)
  • xmars 7y ago
    Mraz, sounds like мразь, not a very good word :))
    • cema 7y ago
      Close languages often sound funny to reach other.
    • pandaman 7y ago
      The word literally means "something that causes chills" so it's not that different from slavic "mraz". It just had been used exclusively in a figurative meaning to describe something that is so disgusting that it makes one shake.
  • f2f 7y ago
    "дядо мраз" in bulgaria. we also celebrated xmas with a quiet family vegetarian dinner, not having such a massive clampdown on religion, and "mraz" delivered presents on new year's. after 1989 things came back to normality and he's now called "дядо коледа". new year's is just a drinking holiday :)