barin

From Russian ба́рин (bárin).

barin (plural barins)

1. Synonym of boyar.
   • 1927, Theodore Acland Harper with Winifred Harper, “Under the Water Tower”, in Siberian Gold, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., →OCLC, page 326:

     Do not take him away, for he is a Barin, and yet he seeks to understand the mujik, and that also is a new thing.

   • 1992 September 6, Mark Markish x2799, “Organic Russia”, in soc.culture.soviet‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 July 2025:

     As a matter of "education (or re-education)" of his farmers, a landlord (barin) was demonstrating them a new plough he has purchased in Germany. The farmers (mouzhiki) watched silently and attentively. Then one of them said: - Barin, is this plough from Germany? - Yes. - That Germany which buys grain in Russia? - Yes. - Where are they going to buy grain, once we'll have started ploughing their way?

   • 2010 January 5, daniloff, “Has Russia to demand compensation from Latvia?”, in soc.culture.baltics‎^[2] (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 July 2025:

     There is Russian saying - Muzhik was angry at barin but barin did not even know about that

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:barin.

barin

1. definite accusative singular of bar

bari +‎ -n

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɒrin]
• Hyphenation: ba‧rin
• Rhymes: -in

barin

1. superessive singular of bari

barin

1. superessive singular of bari

bārīn

1. third-person plural preterite subjunctive of bëran