песня
Belarusian
Alternative forms
- пе́сьня (pjésʹnja) — Taraškievica orthography
- pieśnia — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *pěsnь, adapted to the common ending -ня (-nja).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpʲesʲnʲa]
Audio: (file)
Noun
пе́сня • (pjésnja) f inan (genitive пе́сні, nominative plural пе́сні, genitive plural пе́сень, relational adjective пе́сенны, diminutive пе́сенька)
- song
- Які́я вы лю́біце пе́сні? (formal) ― Jakíja vy ljúbicje pjésni? ― What kind of songs do you like?
Declension
Declension of пе́сня (inan soft fem-form accent-a reduc)
singular | plural | |
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nominative | пе́сня pjésnja |
пе́сні pjésni |
genitive | пе́сні pjésni |
пе́сень pjésjenʹ |
dative | пе́сні pjésni |
пе́сням pjésnjam |
accusative | пе́сню pjésnju |
пе́сні pjésni |
instrumental | пе́сняй, пе́сняю pjésnjaj, pjésnjaju |
пе́снямі pjésnjami |
locative | пе́сні pjésni |
пе́снях pjésnjax |
count form | — | пе́сні1 pjésni1 |
1Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.
References
- “песня” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
- “песня”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)
Russian
Alternative forms
- пѣ́сня (pě́snja) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
- пестня (pestnja), песьня (pesʹnja) — rare misspellings
- песнь (pesnʹ)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pěsnь, adapted to the common ending -ня (-nja).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpʲesʲnʲə]
Audio: (file)
Noun
пе́сня • (pésnja) f inan (genitive пе́сни, nominative plural пе́сни, genitive plural пе́сен, relational adjective пе́сенный, diminutive пе́сенка)
- song
- Synonym: (dated or poetic) песнь (pesnʹ)
- С пе́сней по жи́зни ― S pésnej po žízni ― Not a day without a song. (motto)
- лебеди́ная пе́сня ― lebedínaja pésnja ― swan song
- до́лгая пе́сня ― dólgaja pésnja ― long story
- ста́рая пе́сня ― stáraja pésnja ― same old story
- отде́льная пе́сня ― otdélʹnaja pésnja ― something special
- (colloquial) something very good, very cool
- (Eastern Orthodoxy) canticle
Declension
Declension of пе́сня (inan fem-form soft-stem accent-a reduc)
Derived terms
- пе́сенник m anim (pésennik)
Compounds:
- песнопе́вец m anim (pesnopévec)
- песнопе́ние n (pesnopénije)
- песнетво́рец m anim (pesnetvórec, “songwriter”)
- Phrases
- не …, а пе́сня (ne …, a pésnja)
- про́сто пе́сня (prósto pésnja)
Related terms
- напе́в m (napév)
- певе́ц m anim (pevéc)
- певу́чий (pevúčij)
- пе́вчий (pévčij)
- петь impf (petʹ)
- припе́в m (pripév)
- припева́ть impf (pripevátʹ)
- припева́ючи (pripevájuči)
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “песня”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Further reading
- Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “петь”, 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.