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лесбиянка

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Russian

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Etymology

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Adaptation of a Western language lesbian (itself eventually tracing back to Ancient Greek Λέσβος (Lésbos, Lesbos), the native island of Sappho, a poetess associated with female homosexuality in the Western literary canon) with the Russian feminizing suffix -ка (-ka).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [lʲɪzbʲɪˈjankə]
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Noun

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лесбия́нка (lesbijánkaf anim (genitive лесбия́нки, nominative plural лесбия́нки, genitive plural лесбия́нок)

  1. lesbian

Declension

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