чёлн
Russian
editAlternative forms
edit- чёлнъ (čoln) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
Etymology
editInherited from Proto-Slavic *čьlnъ.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editчёлн • (čoln) m inan (genitive челна́, nominative plural челны́, genitive plural челно́в)
- boat, canoe, dugout (usually hollowed out of a single log)
- 1895, Максим Горький, Однажды осенью; English translation from Robert Nisbet Bain, transl., One Autumn Night, Funk and Wagnall's, 1902:
- Опрокинутый чёлн с проломленным дном и ограбленные холодным ветром деревья, жалкие и старые… Всё кругом разрушено, бесплодно и мертво, а небо точит неиссякаемые слёзы.
- Oprokinutyj čoln s prolomlennym dnom i ograblennyje xolodnym vetrom derevʹja, žalkije i staryje… Vsjo krugom razrušeno, besplodno i mertvo, a nebo točit neissjakajemyje sljózy.
- The overturned canoe with its battered keel and the miserable old trees rifled by the cold wind—everything around me was bankrupt, barren, and dead, and the sky flowed with undryable tears. . . .
Declension
editRelated terms
edit- челно́к (čelnók)
Further reading
edit- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “чёлн”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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