Russian Chant Question from an Ignorant American

[dan716]

As a Buffalo guy, I've been to a bunch of the WJC games, 3 of which have been Russian games (including the Finland quarterfinal). I've had the pleasure of sitting near a bunch of awesome Russian fans, who have been doing a two primary chants. One of them is obvious (ROOS-EE-YAH), but the other sounds like SCHI-BORE, and they tend to do it when Russian has the puck in the attacking zone. My friends and I have been wondering what they've been saying and what it means, can anyone enlighten us? Thanks!

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[cska78]

As a Buffalo guy, I've been to a bunch of the WJC games, 3 of which have been Russian games (including the Finland quarterfinal). I've had the pleasure of sitting near a bunch of awesome Russian fans, who have been doing a two primary chants. One of them is obvious (ROOS-EE-YAH), but the other sounds like SCHI-BORE, and they tend to do it when Russian has the puck in the attacking zone. My friends and I have been wondering what they've been saying and what it means, can anyone enlighten us? Thanks!

it's "shaybu!" shayba is a puck, shaybu - we want/need a goal.

 

[dan716]

it's "shaybu!" shayba is a puck, shaybu - we want/need a goal.

that's totally it, thank you!

 

[vorky]

(ROOS-EE-YAH)

That seems to be Rossiya (Россия), which means Russia

look at wiki and listen it

Edit: My fault, you understand this word...

 

[4Isles4*]

it means the Petrov is COMING!!!!

 

[Jeb99]

Been wondering about this too. Are you saying that "Shayba" is puck and by just adding a "U" instead of an "a" the meaning switches to "we want/need a goal"?

Edit. Sorry for bumping an old thread like that. I was looking for the 2011 whc thread and forgot I was at like at page 151....

 

[Jerzey Devil]

You aren't ignorant for not knowing a foreign language.

 

[PenDuhNotPittsburgh]

Been wondering about this too. Are you saying that "Shayba" is puck and by just adding a "U" instead of an "a" the meaning switches to "we want/need a goal"?

Edit. Sorry for bumping an old thread like that. I was looking for the 2011 whc thread and forgot I was at like at page 151....

Nope shaybu and shayba both just mean puck. It's just bye adding the u-ending you say that you do something with the object that you add the u to. That's how it just goes in slavic languages.
In English you'd say "tell him" while in Russian you'd say "Govory emU", you'd say "beat him up" in English while in Russian you'd say "day emU".
It's just an aspect of the gramar/synthax

 

[Eisen]

Shaybu shaybu is also a name of a Russian hockey comic movie from the 60s. It's very sweet.

 

[ilsuonatorejones]

"Shaybu" is an accusative, i. e. a direct object; it's means that "the puck" is the object of an action: the verb and the subject are implied.

 

[Loffer]

All in all - given the fact a literal translation is an illusion and pipe dream - we are entitled to do the following interpretation from Slavic Russian to Anglosaxian English-American:

"Shaybu!" --> "Shoot it, you moron!"

 

[Eisen]

All in all - given the fact a literal translation is an illusion and pipe dream - we are entitled to do the following interpretation from Slavic Russian to Anglosaxian English-American:

"Shaybu!" --> "Shoot it, you moron!"

More like "shoooooot".

 

[Kshahdoo]

It's more like a short version of a phrase "we want the goal" or "we want another goal" (hotim shaibu or hotim esche odnu shaibu).

 

[Zine]

Translations and semantics aside, it means 'we want a goal'.

 

[Theokritos]

Funny fact: шайба (shayba) is a word the Russian language borrowed from German (Scheibe = "disc"), like quite a few other terms. Another hockey-related example: штраф /shtraf ("penalty"), from German Strafe ("punishment", "penalty").

 

[Eisen]

Funny fact: шайба (shayba) is a word the Russian language borrowed from German (Scheibe = "disc"), like quite a few other terms. Another hockey-related example: штраф /shtraf ("penalty"), from German Strafe ("punishment", "penalty").

I was wondering that, too.

 

[BlitzSnipe]

it's "shaybu!" shayba is a puck, shaybu - we want/need a goal.

The interesting thing is, the Russian word 'Shayba' (шайба) comes from the German word 'Sheibe', meaning, among other things, disc.

 

[The Gloaming]

Funny fact: шайба (shayba) is a word the Russian language borrowed from German (Scheibe = "disc"), like quite a few other terms. Another hockey-related example: штраф /shtraf ("penalty"), from German Strafe ("punishment", "penalty").

The Russian language also didn't bother changing the German word for sandwich into something more Russian-sounding. It's the exact same word.

 

[kp61c]

"Shaybu" is an accusative, i. e. a direct object; it's means that "the puck" is the object of an action: the verb and the subject are implied.

the best answer, ty

 

[Zenos]

The Russian language also didn't bother changing the German word for sandwich into something more Russian-sounding. It's the exact same word.

So they say Sandwich?
Butterbrot is a pretty ridiculous word that I've never actually heard in real conversations / interactions (in German, I mean).
Although, perhaps it's a regional thing.

 

[kp61c]

So they say Sandwich?
Butterbrot is a pretty ridiculous word that I've never actually heard in real conversations / interactions (in German, I mean).
Although, perhaps it's a regional thing.

more like booterbrod in russian. beautiful, love it

 

[The Hanging Jowl]

You aren't ignorant for not knowing a foreign language.

Not to get nitpicky but not knowing a foreign language is the very definition of ignorance. Maybe you mean it's nothing to feel bad about or it's not a negative but not knowing something is being ignorant to it.

 

[Vipers31]

So they say Sandwich?
Butterbrot is a pretty ridiculous word that I've never actually heard in real conversations / interactions (in German, I mean).
Although, perhaps it's a regional thing.

I'd say it's regional, then. I mean, I am in my thirties and I don't have kids, so it's not exactly in my most active vocabulary, but I wouldn't call it a particularly unused word.

 

[NYRFANMANI]

I was wondering that, too.

Me too.

Another hockey-related example: штраф /shtraf ("penalty"), from German Strafe ("punishment", "penalty").

That's ****ing awesome.

 

[Trovatore]

It's kinda funny that the English word for 'a (hockey) stick' is... well, just 'a stick', literally "a long slender piece of wood or metal" (Merriam Webster dict.). In Russia we have a distinct word for this thing - 'клюшка'. I think in other languages - Finnish, German, Swedish, Czech, French, etc - this is the case too? Anybody?