басня
See also: басна
Russian
Alternative forms
- баснь (basnʹ) — archaic
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *basnь.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbasʲnʲə]
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Noun
ба́сня • (básnja) f inan (genitive ба́сни, nominative plural ба́сни, genitive plural ба́сен, relational adjective ба́сенный, diminutive ба́сенка)
- (literary genre) fable
- (figuratively) fable, untruth, cock-and-bull story, fib
Declension
Declension of ба́сня (inan fem-form soft-stem accent-a reduc)
Pre-reform declension of ба́сня (inan fem-form soft-stem accent-a reduc)
Derived terms
Compounds:
- басносло́вный (basnoslóvnyj)
- баснопи́сец m (basnopísec)
Related terms
- Borrowed
Descendants
- → Ingrian: basnja
Further reading
- Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “баснь”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.