страна

Bulgarian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stornà (“side, land”); morphologically from стор (stor, “spread, extension”) (obsolete, archaic) +‎ -на (-na).

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• Rhymes: -na

Noun

страна́ • (straná) f (relational adjective стра́нен)

1. side, facet

   Synonyms: край (kraj), (archaic) пола́ (polá)

   от една́ страна́ ..., от дру́га страна́ ...

   ot edná straná ..., ot drúga straná ...

   on the one hand ..., on the other hand ...

   (literally, “from one side ..., from another side ...”)

   оста́вам/стоя́ на страна́ (от)

   ostávam/stojá na straná (ot)

   to remain/to stay aside (from), to remain impartial (to)

   о́пака страна́ ― ópaka straná ― opposite, inverse side/face

   на отсре́щната страна́ ― na otsréštnata straná ― on the opposite side

2. direction, orientation (including cardinal direction)

   Synonyms: посо́ка (posóka), направле́ние (napravlénie)

   зави́вам на дру́га страна́ ― zavívam na drúga straná ― to turn in another direction

   и́зточна страна́ ― íztočna straná ― east orientation

3. country, land, region

   ро́дна страна́ ― ródna straná ― homeland

   разви́та страна́ ― razvíta straná ― developed country

   бли́зки и дале́чни страни́ ― blízki i daléčni straní ― near and far countries

4. (figurative) viewpoint, perspective, angle

   Synonyms: гле́дище (glédište), стано́вище (stanóvište)

   от страна́ на ― ot straná na ― from the point of view of

5. (figurative) side, aspect, nuance (of character, personality)

   Synonyms: осо́беност (osóbenost), аспе́кт (aspékt)

   скри́та страна́ на не́чий хара́ктер ― skríta straná na néčij harákter ― a hidden side of someone's character

6. (colloquial) cheek (any of the two sides of the face)

   Synonym: бу́за (búza)

Declension

Derived terms

• страни́ (straní) (fossilized sg. gen. case)
  • встрани́ (vstraní, “alongside, beside”) (adverb)
  • настрани́ (nastraní, “aside, at the rear”) (adverb)
  • отстрани́ (otstraní, “sideways, from aside”) (adverb)
  • състрани́ (sǎstraní, “in that way, through that direction”) (adverb, archaic)
• страня́ (stranjá, “to be aside”) (usually + от (ot))
• стра́ница (stránica, “page, one side of sheet”)
• стра́нник (stránnik, “wanderer, traveller from afar”)
  • странноприе́мница (strannopriémnica, “inn, tavern, hostel”)
• стра́нство (stránstvo, “travel abroad”)
• чуждестра́нен (čuždestránen), иностра́нен (inostránen, “foreign”)
  • иностра́нец (inostránec, “foreigner”)

Related terms

• просто́р (prostór, “expanse, vast”)

References

• “страна”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “страна”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• страна in Исторически речник на Българския език, Sofia University "St. Clement Ohridsky"

Macedonian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stornà (“side, land”).

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Noun

страна • (strana) f (plural страни, relational adjective страничен)

1. side
2. (colloquial) page

Declension

Old Church Slavonic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *storna.

Noun

страна • (strana) f

1. side
2. country, region
   • from the Life of Constantine:

     оучителѧ не имамъ таковаго, иже бꙑ нꙑ въ свои ꙗзꙑкъ истоую вѣроу христꙇаньскоую сказалъ, да бꙑша и инꙑ странꙑ того зрѧще подобилисѧ намъ.

     učitelę ne imamŭ takovago, iže by ny vŭ svoi jazykŭ istuju věru xristianĭskuju skazalŭ, da byša i iny strany togo zręšte podobilisę namŭ.

     we have no such teacher who would explain the true Christian faith to us in our own tongue, so that even the countries here, seeing this, might emulate us.

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• просторъ (prostorŭ)
• прострѣти (prostrěti)

Descendants

• → Old East Slavic: страна (strana)
  • Russian: страна́ (straná)

References

• Miklosich, Franz (1850) Lexicon linguae Slovenicae. Veteris dialecti‎, Vienna
• Бояджиев, Андрей (2016) Старобългарска читанка‎, София

Old East Slavic

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Church Slavonic страна (strana), from Proto-Slavic *storna.

Pronunciation

• (ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /strɑˈnɑ/
• (ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /straˈna/
• (ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /straˈna/
• Hyphenation: стра‧на

Noun

страна (strana) f

1. side
2. shore
3. part
4. land, country
   • 1377, Dmitry of Suzdal, Laurentian Codex‎, page 2:

     Афету же ꙗша^с полунощнꙑꙗ странꙑ и ꙁападнꙑꙗ.

     Afetu že jaša^s polunoščnyja strany i zapadnyja.

     And Japheth was given the northern lands and the western.

5. folk, people
6. side (in a dispute or war)

Declension

Descendants

• Russian: страна́ (straná)

References

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “страна”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volumes 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 535

Russian

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic страна (strana), borrowed from Old Church Slavonic страна (strana), from Proto-Slavic *storna. Compare the regular East-Slavic reflex with pleophony сторона́ (storoná).

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Noun

страна́ • (straná) f inan (genitive страны́, nominative plural стра́ны, genitive plural стран)

1. country
2. region

   четы́ре страны́ све́та ― četýre straný svéta ― the four cardinal points

Declension

Synonyms

• (country): госуда́рство (gosudárstvo)
• (region): ме́стность (méstnostʹ), край (kraj), сторона́ (storoná) (in "four cardinal points")

Derived terms

• иностра́нный (inostránnyj)
• страна́-уча́стница f (straná-učástnica)
• страна́-кредито́р f (straná-kreditór)
• страна́ 404 (straná 404)
• страни́ца (straníca)
• странове́дение n (stranovédenije)
• стра́нствовать (stránstvovatʹ)

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “страна”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *storna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strǎːna/
• Hyphenation: стра‧на
• Rhymes: -ǎːna

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Noun

стра́на f (Latin spelling strána)

1. side
2. page (of a book)

Declension

Synonyms

• стра̀ница

Derived terms