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Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch bezaan.
Pronunciation
Noun
биза́нь • (bizánʹ) f inan (genitive биза́ни, nominative plural биза́ни, genitive plural биза́ней)
- spanker (a fore-and-aft gaff-rigged sail on the aftmost mast)
- ellipsis of биза́нь-ма́чта (bizánʹ-máčta), mizzenmast
Declension
Further reading
- бизань in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бизань”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress