дрянь
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]First attested in 1731. From дрань (dranʹ), from Proto-Slavic *dьranь, from *dьranъ, past passive participle of *dьrati (“to tear, flay”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]дрянь • (drjanʹ) f inan or f anim (genitive дря́ни, nominative plural дря́ни, genitive plural дря́ней)
- (colloquial) rubbish, trash
- 1929 – 1940, М. А. Булгаков, Мастер и Маргарита :
- Пошёл я купа́ться на Москва́-ре́ку, ну и попя́тили мо́ю одёжу, а э́ту дрянь оста́вили!
- Pošól ja kupátʹsja na Moskvá-réku, nu i popjátili móju odjóžu, a étu drjanʹ ostávili!
- 1979 translation by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
- I went for a swim in the Moscow River, so they filched my clothes and left me this trash!
- Пошёл я купа́ться на Москва́-ре́ку, ну и попя́тили мо́ю одёжу, а э́ту дрянь оста́вили!
- (figuratively, colloquial, animate) rotter, skunk, dirty dog
Declension
[edit]Declension of дрянь (bian fem-form 3rd-decl accent-a)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “дрянь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “дрянь”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 271
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*dьranь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 217
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