плен

From Proto-Slavic *pelnъ.

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плен • (plen) m

1. captivity, custody

• “плен”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “плен”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pelnъ.

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плен • (plen) m

1. prey
2. booty

• пленик (plenik)
• пленство (plenstvo)

• плѣнъ (plěn) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic плѣнъ (plěnŭ, “booty”), from Proto-Slavic *pelnъ. Compare the inherited East Slavic doublet поло́н (polón).

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плен • (plen) m inan (genitive пле́на, nominative plural пле́ны, genitive plural пле́нов)

1. captivity, custody
   • газета «Русское слово», 1916.04.04 :

     на примо́рском фро́нте на́ми захва́чено в плен о́коло 100 аске́ров

     na primórskom frónte námi zaxváčeno v plen ókolo 100 askérov

     on the seaside front we took ca. 100 soldiers into custody

• пле́нник (plénnik)
• пле́нница (plénnica)
• пле́нный (plénnyj)
• пленя́ть (plenjátʹ)
• плени́ть (plenítʹ)

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

• плије̑н (Ijekavian)

From earlier plěnъ, from Proto-Slavic *pelnъ.

• IPA^(key): /plêːn/

пле̑н m (Latin spelling plȇn)

1. booty, plunder