1 showing no interest, emotion etc, or not resisting an attack etc: The villagers showed passive resistance to the enemy.
az: passiv
ru: пассивный
2 (linguistics) of the form of the verb used when the subject receives the action of the verb, for example in the sentence 'The boy was bitten by the dog'.
az: məchul
ru: пассивный, страдательный
♦ noun
(also passive voice) (linguistics) the form of a verb when the subject is the person or thing to which an action is done, for example ‘was bitten’ in ‘The man was bitten by a dog’.
az: məchul növ
ru: пассив, страдательный залог
See also:
English-Azerbaijani dictionary