тьмутаракань

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Russian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Тмутарака́нь (Tmutarakánʹ), a medieval Russian town in what is now Krasnodar Krai. In modern Russian, the name sounds like the words for "dark cockroach city" (тьма таракан).

Pronunciation

Noun

тьмутарака́нь • (tʹmutarakánʹ) f inan (genitive тьмутарака́ни, nominative plural тьмутарака́ни, genitive plural тьмутарака́ней)

  1. obscure and remote place far away from civilization; similar to idiomatic use of Timbuktu.

Declension

Declension of тьмутарака́нь (inan fem-form 3rd-decl accent-a) 
singular plural
nominative тьмутарака́нь
tʹmutarakánʹ 		тьмутарака́ни
tʹmutarakáni
genitive тьмутарака́ни
tʹmutarakáni 		тьмутарака́ней
tʹmutarakánej
dative тьмутарака́ни
tʹmutarakáni 		тьмутарака́ням
tʹmutarakánjam
accusative тьмутарака́нь
tʹmutarakánʹ 		тьмутарака́ни
tʹmutarakáni
instrumental тьмутарака́нью
tʹmutarakánʹju 		тьмутарака́нями
tʹmutarakánjami
prepositional тьмутарака́ни
tʹmutarakáni 		тьмутарака́нях
tʹmutarakánjax
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