пеня

Probably borrowed from Polish pena (“fine”), from Latin poena (“penalty, punishment”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “blood money, fine”). If so, doublet of цена́ (cená, “price”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʲenʲə]

пе́ня • (pénja) f inan (genitive пе́ни, nominative plural пе́ни, genitive plural пе́ней)

1. fine (payment for breaking the law)

   Synonym: штраф (štraf)

• пеня́ть (penjátʹ)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пеня”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress