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Bulgarian
Pronunciation
Noun
ли́ния • (línija) f (relational adjective лине́ен)
- line
- ruler (measuring instrument)
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References
- “линия”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “линия”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from Polish linia or German Linie, from Latin līnea (“line, thread”), from līnum (“flax”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno-. From the same Indo-European root derives лён (ljon, “flax”) (< *lьnъ (“flax”)).
Pronunciation
Noun
ли́ния • (línija) f inan (genitive ли́нии, nominative plural ли́нии, genitive plural ли́ний, relational adjective лине́йный)
- line (path through two or more points, or figuratively)
- технологи́ческая ли́ния ― texnologíčeskaja línija ― production line
- железнодоро́жная ли́ния ― železnodoróžnaja línija ― railroad line
- ли́ния электропереда́чи ― línija elektroperedáči ― power line
- насле́дственная ли́ния ― naslédstvennaja línija ― line of descent
- (historical) line (old Russian unit of length equal to 1/10 of an inch, or 2.54 mm)
- (dated) a building housing a row of adjacent trading stalls; a cloth hall
- type of street or one side of a street
- дом на 8-й ли́нии Васи́льевского о́строва ― dom na 8-j línii Vasílʹjevskovo óstrova ― a house on 8th Line of Vasilyevsky Island
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