страна

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stornà (“side, land”); morphologically from стор (stor, “spread, extension”) (obsolete, archaic) +‎ -на (-na).

• IPA^(key): [strɐˈna]

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• Rhymes: -na

страна́ • (straná) f (relational adjective стра́нен)

1. side, facet

   Synonyms: край (kraj), (archaic) пола́ (polá)

   от една́ страна́ ..., от дру́га страна́ ...

   ot edná straná ..., ot drúga straná ...

   on the one hand ..., on the other hand ...

   (literally, “from one side ..., from another side ...”)

   оста́вам/стоя́ на страна́ (от)

   ostávam/stojá na straná (ot)

   to remain/to stay aside (from), to remain impartial (to)

   о́пака страна́ ― ópaka straná ― opposite, inverse side/face

   на отсре́щната страна́ ― na otsréštnata straná ― on the opposite side

2. direction, orientation (including cardinal direction)

   Synonyms: посо́ка (posóka), направле́ние (napravlénie)

   зави́вам на дру́га страна́ ― zavívam na drúga straná ― to turn in another direction

   и́зточна страна́ ― íztočna straná ― east orientation

3. country, land, region

   ро́дна страна́ ― ródna straná ― homeland

   разви́та страна́ ― razvíta straná ― developed country

   бли́зки и дале́чни страни́ ― blízki i daléčni straní ― near and far countries

4. (figurative) viewpoint, perspective, angle

   Synonyms: гле́дище (glédište), стано́вище (stanóvište)

   от страна́ на ― ot straná na ― from the point of view of

5. (figurative) side, aspect, nuance (of character, personality)

   Synonyms: осо́беност (osóbenost), аспе́кт (aspékt)

   скри́та страна́ на не́чий хара́ктер ― skríta straná na néčij harákter ― a hidden side of someone's character

6. (colloquial) cheek (any of the two sides of the face)

   Synonym: бу́за (búza)

• просто́р (prostór, “expanse, vast”)

• “страна”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “страна”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• страна in Исторически речник на Българския език, Sofia University "St. Clement Ohridsky"

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stornà (“side, land”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈstrana]

страна • (strana) f (plural страни, relational adjective страничен)

1. side
2. (colloquial) page

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *storna.

страна • (strana) f

1. side
2. country, region
   • from the Life of Constantine:

     оучителѧ не имамъ таковаго, иже бꙑ нꙑ въ свои ꙗзꙑкъ истоую вѣроу христꙇаньскоую сказалъ, да бꙑша и инꙑ странꙑ того зрѧще подобилисѧ намъ.

     učitelę ne imamŭ takovago, iže by ny vŭ svoi jazykŭ istuju věru xristianĭskuju skazalŭ, da byša i iny strany togo zręšte podobilisę namŭ.

     we have no such teacher who would explain the true Christian faith to us in our own tongue, so that even the countries here, seeing this, might emulate us.

• просторъ (prostorŭ)
• прострѣти (prostrěti)

• → Old East Slavic: страна (strana)
  • Russian: страна́ (straná)

• Miklosich, Franz (1850) Lexicon linguae Slovenicae. Veteris dialecti‎^[1], Vienna
• Бояджиев, Андрей (2016) Старобългарска читанка‎^[2], София

Learned borrowing from Old Church Slavonic страна (strana), from Proto-Slavic *storna.

• Hyphenation: стра‧на

страна (strana) f

1. side
2. shore
3. part
4. land, country
   • 1377, Dmitry of Suzdal, Laurentian Codex‎^[3], page 2:

     Афету же ꙗша^с полунощнꙑꙗ странꙑ и ꙁападнꙑꙗ.

     Afetu že jaša^s polunoščnyja strany i zapadnyja.

     And Japheth was given the northern lands and the western.

5. folk, people
6. side (in a dispute or war)

• Russian: страна́ (straná)

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “страна”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[4] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 535

Inherited from Old East Slavic страна (strana), borrowed from Old Church Slavonic страна (strana), from Proto-Slavic *storna. Compare the regular East-Slavic reflex with pleophony сторона́ (storoná).

• IPA^(key): [strɐˈna]

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страна́ • (straná) f inan (genitive страны́, nominative plural стра́ны, genitive plural стран, relational adjective страново́й)

1. country
2. region

   четы́ре страны́ све́та ― četýre straný svéta ― the four cardinal points

• (country): госуда́рство (gosudárstvo)
• (region): ме́стность (méstnostʹ), край (kraj), сторона́ (storoná) (in "four cardinal points")

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “страна”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “сторона”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “сторона”, 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 206

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *storna.

• IPA^(key): /strǎːna/

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• Hyphenation: стра‧на
• Rhymes: -ǎːna

стра́на f (Latin spelling strána)

1. side
2. page (of a book)

   Synonym: стра̀ница

• “страна”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025