район

Borrowed from Russian район (rajon), from French rayon.

• IPA^(key): [rɐ̟.jɔːɴ̟]
• Hyphenation: ра‧йон

район • (rajon) (Mongolian script ᠷᠠᠶ᠋ᠣᠨ)

1. district (administrative division)

   Synonym: аймаг (ajmag)

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• раіо́нъ (raión) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

First attested in 1865. Borrowed from French rayon, from Middle French royon, rayon, from Old French raie, ree (“honeycomb”), from Frankish *hrātu (“honeycomb”). Not cognate with English region, of which it is a false cognate.

• IPA^(key): [rɐˈjɵn]

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райо́н • (rajón) m inan (genitive райо́на, nominative plural райо́ны, genitive plural райо́нов, relational adjective райо́нный)

1. district
2. region, area

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “район”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “район”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 96

• р-н. (r-n.) — abbreviation

Borrowed from Russian райо́н (rajón), from French rayon.

• IPA^(key): [rɐˈjɔn]

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райо́н • (rajón) m inan (genitive райо́ну, nominative plural райо́ни, genitive plural райо́нів, relational adjective райо́нний)

1. district
2. region, area
3. raion

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “район”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka