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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (abbreviation): Ru.
Etymology
[edit]From Medieval Latin (11th century) Russiānus, the adjective of Russia, a Latinization of the Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ). Attested in English (both as a noun and as an adjective) from the 16th century. By surface analysis, Russia -an.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Russian (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to Russia.
- 2017 February 19, “Putin”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 2, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
- So that is the official line: you’re shit, we’re shit, everything’s shit, never try for a better world because it doesn’t exist. That is not only bleak, I think it’s also the working title of every Russian novel ever written.
- (dated) Of or pertaining to the Soviet Union.
- (dated) Of or pertaining to Rus.
- Of or pertaining to the Russian language.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- anti-Russian
- Black Russian
- Black Russian Terrier
- Blue Russian
- Great Russian
- Little Russian
- New Russian
- non-Russian
- piss like a Russian racehorse
- RuSSian
- Russian backgammon
- Russian bar
- Russian black bread
- Russian Blue
- Russian crash
- Russian cubit
- Russian cypress
- Russian dandelion
- Russian desman
- Russian dip
- Russian doll
- Russian dressing
- Russian Easter bread
- Russian elm
- Russian Federation
- Russian flu
- Russian gauge
- Russian gold
- Russianisation
- Russianise
- Russianization
- Russianize
- Russian larch
- Russian Manchooria
- Russian Manchuria
- Russian novel effect
- Russian olive
- Russian Orthodox Church
- Russian oven
- Russian peasant multiplication
- Russian reversal
- Russian Revolution
- Russian roulette
- Russian sage
- Russian salad
- Russian Sign Language
- Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- Russian sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii)
- Russian swing
- Russian thistle
- Russian Tsvetnaya Bolonka
- Russian twist
- Russian White House
- Russian Wolfhound
- Russian world
- Ruzzian
- Ruᛋᛋian
- White Russian
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]of or pertaining to Russia
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of or pertaining to the Soviet Union — see Soviet
of or pertaining to Rus
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of or pertaining to the Russian language
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Noun
[edit]Russian (countable and uncountable, plural Russians)
- (countable) A citizen of Russia.
- (countable) An ethnic Russian: a member of the East Slavic ethnic group which is native to, and constitutes the majority of the population of, Russia.
- (countable, obsolete) A person from the Soviet Union
- (uncountable) The Russian language.
- 2015, Shane R. Reeves, David Wallace, “The Combatant Status of the “Little Green Men” and Other Participants in the Ukraine Conflict”, in International Law Studies, US Naval War College[1], volume 91, number 361, Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, page 393:
- The “little green men”—faces covered, wearing unmarked olive uniforms, speaking Russian and using Russian weapons—have played a significant role in both the occupation of Crimea and the civil war in eastern Ukraine.196
- A domestic cat breed.
- A cat of this breed.
- (juggling, rare in the singular) A type of juggling ball with a hard outer shell, filled with salt, sand or another similar substance.
- (MLE, slang) Someone from or around Brandon Estate (also known as Moscow).
- (MLE, slang) A gun (due to some preference for Russian arms with gang members).
- (South Africa) A kind of sausage.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]ethnic Russian
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person from Russia
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Russian (language)
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See also
[edit]Russian (cat) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Russian terms
Further reading
[edit]- ISO 639-1 code ru, ISO 639-3 code rus (SIL)
- Ethnologue entry for Russian, rus
See also
[edit]- Appendix:Russian Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Russian
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