район

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Buryat

Alternative scripts
Classical Mongolian ᠷᠠᠶ᠋ᠣᠨ
rayon
Latin (1931–1936)a
Latin (1937–1939)b rajoon
Cyrillic район
rajon
a Based on the southern Tsongol–Sartul dialect.
b Based on the eastern Khori dialect.

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian район m inan (rajon), from French rayon m.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ра‧йон

Noun

район (rajon) (??? please provide spelling!)

  1. district (administrative division)
    Synonym: аймаг (ajmag)

Declension

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Russian

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Etymology

First attested in 1865. Borrowed from French rayon, from rai + -on, from Latin radius.

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Is this from French "rayon" etymology 1 (< Latin radius) or etymology 2 (< Frankish for honeycomb)? Our English article raion disagrees.”

Regardless of etymology, not cognate with the English region, of which it is a false friend.

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Noun

райо́н (rajónm inan (genitive райо́на, nominative plural райо́ны, genitive plural райо́нов, relational adjective райо́нный)

  1. district
  2. region, area

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Descendants

  • English: raion
  • Ingrian: raijona, rajona
  • Romanian: raion
  • Uyghur: رايون (rayon)
  • Yakut: оройуон (oroyuon)

References

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “район”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “район”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 96

Ukrainian

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Pronunciation

Noun

райо́н (rajónm inan (genitive райо́ну, nominative plural райо́ни, genitive plural райо́нів, relational adjective райо́нний)

  1. district
  2. region, area
  3. raion

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