мебель

Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from French meuble via Polish mebel or German Möbel. Further from Latin mōbilis, from Latin moveō.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈmʲebʲɪlʲ]
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Noun

ме́бель • (mébelʹ) f inan (genitive ме́бели, uncountable, relational adjective ме́бельный)

(collective) furniture
Meronym: пре́дмет ме́бели (prédmet mébeli)

размеще́ние ме́бели ― razmeščénije mébeli ― the placement of furniture

Declension

Declension of ме́бель (inan sg-only fem-form 3rd-decl accent-a)

	singular
nominative	ме́бель mébelʹ
genitive	ме́бели mébeli
dative	ме́бели mébeli
accusative	ме́бель mébelʹ
instrumental	ме́белью mébelʹju
prepositional	ме́бели mébeli

Derived terms

ме́бельщик m anim (mébelʹščik)

Descendants

→ Azerbaijani: mebel
→ Ingrian: meebeli
→ Kyrgyz: мебель (mebel)
→ Ossetian: мебель (mebelʹ)
→ Turkmen: mebel
→ Uzbek: mebel

Further reading

Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “мебель”, 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.