хмель

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Russian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xъmelь.

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Noun

хмель (xmelʹm inan (genitive хме́ля, uncountable, relational adjective хме́льный)

хмель
  1. hop (plant)
    • 1842, Николай Гоголь [Nikolai Gogol], “Том I, Глава 6”, in Мёртвые души; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., Dead Souls, London: Chatto & Windus, 1922:
      Хмель, глуши́вший внизу́ кусты́ бузины́, ряби́ны и лесно́го оре́шника и пробежа́вший пото́м по верху́шке всего́ частоко́ла, взбега́л наконе́ц вверх и обвива́л до полови́ны сло́мленную берё́зу.
      Xmelʹ, glušívšij vnizú kustý buziný, rjabíny i lesnóvo oréšnika i probežávšij potóm po verxúške vsevó častokóla, vzbegál nakonéc vverx i obvivál do polovíny slómlennuju berjózu.
      A hop, after smothering bushes of elder, mountain-ash and hazel, and then running along the top of the whole palisade, finally darted upwards and twined round half of the broken birch-tree.
  2. hops (seeds)
  3. (colloquial) drunkenness, intoxication

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