мещанин
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Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from Polish mieszczanin (“burgher, townsman”), from miasto (“town”). By surface analysis, место (mesto) + -анин (-anin).
Pronunciation
Noun
мещани́н • (meščanín) m anim (genitive мещани́на, nominative plural меща́не, genitive plural меща́н, feminine меща́нка, relational adjective меща́нский, diminutive мещани́нишка)
- (historical) petty bourgeois, petit bourgeois (member of a social estate in the Russian Empire comprising the urban lower middle class)
- (figuratively) Philistine, narrow-minded person
Declension
Declension of мещани́н (anim masc-form hard-stem accent-d)
Derived terms
- измещаниться (izmeščanitʹsja)
- Мещанинов (Meščaninov)
- меща́нка (meščánka)
- мещановатый (meščanovatyj)
- мещаночка (meščanočka)
- мещански (meščanski)
- меща́нство (meščánstvo)
- намещаниться (nameščanitʹsja)
- обмещанивание (obmeščanivanije)
- обмещанивать (obmeščanivatʹ)
- обмещаниваться (obmeščanivatʹsja)
- обмещанить (obmeščanitʹ)
- обмещаниться (obmeščanitʹsja)
- омещанивание (omeščanivanije)
- омещанивать (omeščanivatʹ)
- омещаниваться (omeščanivatʹsja)
- омещанить (omeščanitʹ)
- омещаниться (omeščanitʹsja)
- по-мещански (po-meščanski)