Russian edit

Etymology edit

до́ля (dólja, part, share) +‎ -ник (-nik)

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

до́льник (dólʹnikm inan or m anim (genitive до́льника, nominative plural до́льники, genitive plural до́льников)

  1. (poetry, inanimate) dolnik; a form of verse intermediate between purely accentual and accentual-syllabic, where stressed syllables are separated by one or two unstressed syllables in free variation
    Synonym: (dated) па́узник (páuznik)
  2. (historical, animate) a metayer, a sharecropper (in medieval Russia)
    Synonyms: половни́к (polovník), испо́льщик (ispólʹščik), издо́льщик (izdólʹščik)

Declension edit