столь

• stol — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)

Inherited from Old Ruthenian столь (stolʹ). Compare Ukrainian сте́ля (stélja).

• IPA^(key): [stolʲ]

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• Rhymes: -olʲ
• Hyphenation: столь

столь • (stolʹ) f inan (genitive сто́лі, nominative plural сто́лі, genitive plural сто́лей or сто́ляў)

1. ceiling (the overhead surface of a room, typically serving as the upper boundary of the space)
   • 1913, Ciška Hartny, “Pieśni harbara”, in Pieśni, Saint Petersburg: „Zahlanie sonce i ŭ naše wakonce“, page 5:

     Nawakoła čatyry ściany,
     A na ich — zaplaśnieŭšaja stol:
     U sabie zawalili jany
     Usiu kryŭdu, żadannie i bol.

     Four walls stand encircling,
     With a moldy ceiling atop them—
     They hold locked within
     Every grievance, wish and pain.

   • 2019, люты сакавік, “На Падлозе [On the floor]”, in Сорам [Shame]‎^[1], track 2:

     Мы з табо́й на падло́зе, на нас па́дае столь

     My z tabój na padlózje, na nas pádaje stolʹ

     You and I are on the floor, the ceiling is falling on us

• Bulyka, A. M., editor (2012), “столь”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 32 (смыковати – струмень), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 413
• “столь” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
• “столь”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)

• IPA^(key): [stolʲ]

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• Rhymes: -olʲ

столь • (stolʹ)

1. so, such

   Synonym: насто́лько (nastólʹko)

   Столь мно́го, столь ма́ло. ― Stolʹ mnógo, stolʹ málo. ― So much, so little.

   столь же ― stolʹ že ― equally