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богадельня

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Russian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic бога дѣлꙗ (boga dělja, for God's sake).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [bəɡɐˈdʲelʲnʲə]

Noun

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богаде́льня (bogadélʹnjaf inan (genitive богаде́льни, nominative plural богаде́льни, genitive plural богаде́лен)

  1. almshouse
  2. (by extension, slang, derogatory) a place full of incompetent and/or ignorant people, a useless place

Declension

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Belarusian: багадзельня (bahadzjelʹnja)
  • Ukrainian: богадільня (bohadilʹnja)

References

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  • Anikin, A. E. (2009) “богадельня”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 3 (бе – болдыхать), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 295