Lenin

See also: lénin, Lênin, Lê nin, and Lê-nin

English

Etymology

Transliteration of Russian Ле́нин (Lénin), probably due to the use of a passport of the friend, Nikolay Lenin, whose surname originated from the Siberian Lena river. It is commonly believed that the Lena derives its name from the original Even-Evenk name Elyu-Ene, which means "the Large River".

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛnɪn

• Audio (Southern England)

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Proper noun

Lenin

1. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, a Russian revolutionary and politician.
   • 2011, Christine Dwyer Hickey, The Cold Eye of Heaven, Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 117:

     'He means the other Lennon,' Slowey's voice said. ' John Lennon from the Beatles.' And Farley saw him then, on the bend of the counter smoking a cigar. Slowey then turned to the barman, '... and he means the other Lenin, you know, the Russian revolutionary?'

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Leningrad
• Leninian
• Leninism
• Leninite

Translations

a Russian revolutionary and politician

• Albanian: Lenin m
• Arabic: لِينِين m (lenin)
• Armenian: Լենին (Lenin)
• Basque: Lenin
• Belarusian: Ле́нін m (Ljénin)
• Bengali: লেনিন (lenin)
• Bulgarian: Ле́нин m (Lénin)
• Burmese: လီနင် (linang)
• Catalan: Lenin m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 列寧／列宁 (zh) (Lièníng)

• Czech: Lenin (cs) m
• Danish: Lenin
• Dutch: Lenin (nl)
• Estonian: Lenin
• Finnish: Lenin
• French: Lénine (fr) m
• Georgian: ლენინი (lenini)
• German: Lenin m
• Greek: Λένιν (el) m (Lénin)
• Hebrew: לֵנִין m (lénin)
• Hindi: लेनिन m (lenin)
• Hungarian: Lenin (hu)
• Icelandic: Lenín m
• Indonesian: Lenin
• Irish: Léinín
• Italian: Lenin (it) m
• Japanese: レーニン (Rēnin)
• Kannada: ಲೆನಿನ್ (lenin)
• Kazakh: Ленин (Lenin)
• Khmer: លេនីន (leiniin)
• Korean: 레닌 (ko) (Renin)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Lenîn

• Kyrgyz: Ленин (Lenin)
• Latvian: Ļeņins m
• Lithuanian: Leninas m
• Macedonian: Ленин m (Lenin)
• Malayalam: ലെനിൻ (leniṉ)
• Marathi: लेनिन m (lenin)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Ленин (Lenin)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Lenin m

• Persian: لنین (fa) (lenin)
• Polish: Lenin (pl) m
• Portuguese: Lenine m, Lenin m
• Romanian: Lenin (ro) m
• Russian: Ле́нин (ru) m (Lénin)
• Sanskrit: लेनिन m (lenina)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Лењин m

  Roman: Lenjin m

• Slovak: Lenin m
• Slovene: Lenin m
• Spanish: Lenin (es) m
• Swedish: Lenin
• Tajik: Ленин (Lenin)
• Tamil: லெனின் (leṉiṉ)
• Telugu: లెనిన్ (lenin)
• Thai: เลนิน (lee-nin)
• Turkmen: Lenin
• Ukrainian: Ле́нін m (Lénin)
• Urdu: لینن (lenin)
• Uyghur: لېنىن (lënin)
• Uzbek: Lenin
• Vietnamese: Lê nin, Lenin, Lênin, Lê-nin
• Western Panjabi: لینن (pnb)
• Yiddish: לענין m (lenin)

Further reading

• “Lenin”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Lenin”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Lenin”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “Lenin”, in Collins English Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Linen, linen, linne

Catalan

Proper noun

Lenin m

1. Lenin

Chechen

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Ле́нин (Lénin).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlenin/

Proper noun

Lenin

1. (historical) Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

   Lenin vu vajꞑ bäčči. ― Lenin is our leader.

References

• Matsiev, Akhmat G. (1929) Самоучитель чеченского языка [Self-teaching book of the Chechen language], Grozny: Typographic-literary publishing house of the newspaper “Serlo”, Krainatsizdat, page 17

Czech

Proper noun

Lenin m anim

1. Lenin

Declension

This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• leninismus
• leninista
• leninistický
• leninský

 

Further reading

• Lenin in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈleːniːn/, (less often) /ˈleːnɪn/

Proper noun

Lenin m (proper noun, strong, genitive Lenins or (with an article) Lenin)

1. Lenin

Derived terms

• Leninismus
• Leninist
• leninistisch

 

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Ле́нин (Lénin).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛ.nin/, /ˈljɛ.nin/
• Rhymes: -ɛnin
• Hyphenation: Lè‧nin

Proper noun

Lenin m

1. A transliteration of the Russian surname Ле́нин (Lénin)

Polish

Etymology

Transliteration of Russian Ле́нин (Lénin), probably due to the use of a passport of the friend, Nikolay Lenin, whose surname originated from the Siberian Lena river. It is commonly believed that the Lena derives its name from the original Even-Evenk name Elyu-Ene, which means "the Large River".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛ.ɲin/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛɲin
• Syllabification: Le‧nin

Proper noun

Lenin m pers

1. (historical) Vladimir Lenin

Declension

Declension of Lenin

	singular
nominative	Lenin
genitive	Lenina
dative	Leninowi
accusative	Lenina
instrumental	Leninem
locative	Leninie
vocative	Leninie

Further reading

• Lenin in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlẽ.nĩ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlẽ.nĩ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈle.nĩ/

Proper noun

Lenin m

1. Alternative form of Lenine

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Ленин (Lenin).

Proper noun

Lenin m

1. A village in Lenin, Transnistria, Moldova
2. A commune of Transnistria, Moldova