udáry

Udáry is a term found in Slavic-language contexts as the plural form related to blows or hits. In Russian, the standard form is удары (udáry), the plural of удар (blow, strike). The word is commonly used in sports reporting—boxing, martial arts, and similar disciplines—to denote a sequence or accumulation of blows, and it can also be used metaphorically to describe substantial impacts or setbacks.

In Czech and Slovak, the native word for a single blow is úder, with plural údery. The exact form udáry is not the standard modern Czech or Slovak plural of úder, and it is uncommon in contemporary usage. It may appear in transliterations, older texts, or dialectal contexts. Despite this, udáry is frequently encountered in cross-linguistic discussions of Slavic word families as the Latin-script representation of its Cyrillic counterparts.

Across Slavic languages, related terms exist with similar meanings. Ukrainian uses удари (udary) as the plural of удар (blow), and Polish uses uderzenia. When transliterated into Latin script, these forms can appear as udáry or its variants in non-Cyrillic texts, depending on the transliteration system employed.

Overall, udáry is best understood as the transliterated plural form corresponding to the concept of “blows” or “strikes” in Slavic languages, with practical usage and spelling varying by language and orthographic tradition. See also: úder, удар, удары, uderzenia.