келья
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Russian
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic келиꙗ (kelija), from Byzantine Greek κελλία (kellía), plural of κελλίον (kellíon, “garret”), diminutive of κέλλα (kélla), from Latin cella.
Pronunciation
Noun
ке́лья • (kélʹja) f inan (genitive ке́льи, nominative plural ке́льи, genitive plural ке́лий)
- (Christianity) cell (room in a monastery for sleeping one person)
Declension
Declension of ке́лья (inan fem-form vowel-stem accent-a)
Derived terms
- келе́йник (keléjnik)
- келе́йница (keléjnica)