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Russian
Etymology
до́ля (dólja, “part, share”) + -ник (-nik)
Pronunciation
Noun
до́льник • (dólʹnik) m inan or m anim (genitive до́льника, nominative plural до́льники, genitive plural до́льников)
- (poetry, inanimate) dolnik; a form of verse intermediate between purely accentual and accentual-syllabic, where stressed syllables are separated by one or two unstressed syllables in free variation
- Synonym: (dated) па́узник (páuznik)
- (historical, animate) a metayer, a sharecropper (in medieval Russia)
- Synonyms: половни́к (polovník), испо́льщик (ispólʹščik), издо́льщик (izdólʹščik)
Declension