зелье

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Old Church Slavonic

Noun

зелье (zelĭje)

  1. Alternative form of зелиѥ (zelije)

Russian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zelьje (vegetation, herbs).

Pronunciation

Noun

зе́лье (zélʹjen inan (genitive зе́лья, nominative plural зе́лья, genitive plural зе́лий)

  1. potion (a small portion or dose of a liquid which is medicinal, poisonous, or magical)
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2=Also used in original sense of “vegetation / herb”, as in “дьявольское зелье, табачное зелье”,  “трубочное зелье” (pipe-weed, Tolkien tr. Muravyov). See also https://russian.stackexchange.com/questions/22914/why-is-tolkien-s-pipe-weed-translated-as-%d1%82%d1%80%d1%83%d0%b1%d0%be%d1%87%d0%bd%d0%be%d0%b5-%d0%b7%d0%b5%d0%bb%d1%8c%d0%b5 , which also has some quotes which could be useful. There it is also stated, with a quote, that the novelist Vasily Aksyonov used it in the sense of “marijuana” and that S. I. Ozhegov's Dictionary of the Russian Language (Словарь Русского Языка, see https://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/ogegova/68314 ) lists four meanings including  “tobacco”. These appear to be 1: “potion (liquid)”, 2: “powder for same purposes as 1”, 3: “tobacco, vodka, etc.” and 4: “malicious, sarcastic person / cunning, perky person” 

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  1. (obsolete) gunpowder
    Synonym: порох (porox)

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