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Russian
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic дере́внꙗ (derévnja), from Proto-Slavic *dьrvьňa.
Cognates include Latvian druva (“cornfield, plough-land”) and Lithuanian dirvà (“field, land”), also Lithuanian dirvónas (“fallow field, set-aside land”). Baltic borrowing (with later semantic change from plough-land to homestead and then to hamlet) is likely considering the lack of cognates in other Slavic languages.
Pronunciation
Noun
дере́вня • (derévnja) f inan (genitive дере́вни, nominative plural дере́вни, genitive plural дереве́нь, relational adjective дереве́нский, diminutive дереве́нька or дереву́шка)
- village, hamlet
- Synonyms: посёлок (posjólok), поселе́ние (poselénije), село (selo), селе́ние (selénije), стани́ца (staníca), ху́тор (xútor)
1862, Иван Тургенев [Ivan Turgenev], “Глава 15”, in Отцы и дети; English translation from Richard Hare, transl., Fathers and Sons, 1947:А́нна Серге́евна Одинцо́ва родила́сь от Серге́я Никола́евича Ло́ктева, изве́стного краса́вца, афери́ста и игрока́, кото́рый, продержа́вшись и прошуме́в лет пятна́дцать в Петербу́рге и в Москве́, ко́нчил тем, что проигра́лся в прах и принуждён был посели́ться в дере́вне, где, впро́чем, ско́ро у́мер, оста́вив кро́шечное состоя́ние двум свои́м дочеря́м, А́нне — двадцати́ и Катери́не — двена́дцати лет.- Ánna Sergéjevna Odincóva rodilásʹ ot Sergéja Nikolájeviča Lókteva, izvéstnovo krasávca, aferísta i igroká, kotóryj, proderžávšisʹ i prošumév let pjatnádcatʹ v Peterbúrge i v Moskvé, kónčil tem, što proigrálsja v prax i prinuždjón byl poselítʹsja v derévne, gde, vpróčem, skóro úmer, ostáviv króšečnoje sostojánije dvum svoím dočerjám, Ánne — dvadcatí i Kateríne — dvenádcati let.
- Anna Sergeyevna Odintsova was the daughter of Sergei Nikolayevich Loktev, notorious for his personal beauty, speculations and gambling, who after fifteen years of a stormy and sensational life in Petersburg and Moscow, ended by ruining himself completely at cards and was obliged to retire to the country, where soon afterwards he died, leaving a very small property to his two daughters--Anna, a girl of twenty at that time, and Katya, a child of twelve.
- (collective) the countryside, the rural population
- (colloquial, both feminine and masculine with animacy) yokel, bumpkin
- Synonym: дереве́нщина (derevénščina)
- Дере́вня! Э́то не пиджа́к, э́то смо́кинг. ― Derévnja! Éto ne pidžák, éto smóking. ― What a yokel! This isn't a coat, it’s a tuxedo.
Сиди́т? — Кто? — Ну, мужи́к […] — О дере́вня, а? […] Кто ж его́ поса́дит?! Он же па́мятник!- Sidít? — Kto? — Nu, mužík […] — O derévnja, a? […] Kto ž jevó posádit?! On že pámjatnik!
- Is he sitting? — Who? — That man. — Bumpkin! Who could throw him in prison? He’s a monument! (Play on the meanings of сидеть, meaning to sit and to be in prison, in the movie, Gentlemen of Fortune)
- (collective, dialectal) a tree
- (dialectal) a place which is not a wild field
- (dialectal) a rural community
- (dialectal) a bunch of fallen trees
Usage notes
- Traditionally, дере́вня (derévnja) referred to a smaller village without a church, while село́ (seló) referred to a larger village with a church.
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