рубеж

Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic рубежь (rubežĭ), from Proto-Slavic *rǫbežь, from *rǫbiti (“to chop, hem”) + *-ežь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [rʊˈbʲeʂ]

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Noun

рубе́ж • (rubéž) m inan (genitive рубежа́, nominative plural рубежи́, genitive plural рубеже́й)

1. boundary, border, borderline, frontier (the line or frontier area separating regions)
2. line

Declension

Declension of рубе́ж (inan masc-form sibilant-stem accent-b) 

	singular	plural
nominative	рубе́ж rubéž	рубежи́ rubeží
genitive	рубежа́ rubežá	рубеже́й rubežéj
dative	рубежу́ rubežú	рубежа́м rubežám
accusative	рубе́ж rubéž	рубежи́ rubeží
instrumental	рубежо́м rubežóm	рубежа́ми rubežámi
prepositional	рубеже́ rubežé	рубежа́х rubežáx

Synonyms

• грани́ца (graníca), преде́л (predél)
• ве́ха (véxa), эта́п (etáp)
• ли́ния (línija)

Related terms

• рубежный (rubežnyj)
• рубёж (rubjóž)
• зарубе́жный (zarubéžnyj)
• зарубе́жье (zarubéžʹje)

References

• Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “рубеж”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress