богадельня

Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic бога дѣлꙗ (boga dělja, “for God's sake”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [bəɡɐˈdʲelʲnʲə]

Noun

богаде́льня • (bogadélʹnja) f inan (genitive богаде́льни, nominative plural богаде́льни, genitive plural богаде́лен)

  1. almshouse
  2. (by extension, slang, derogatory) a place full of incompetent and/or ignorant people, a useless place

Declension
Declension of богаде́льня (inan fem-form soft-stem accent-a reduc) 
singular plural
nominative богаде́льня
bogadélʹnja		 богаде́льни
bogadélʹni
genitive богаде́льни
bogadélʹni		 богаде́лен
bogadélen
dative богаде́льне
bogadélʹne		 богаде́льням
bogadélʹnjam
accusative богаде́льню
bogadélʹnju		 богаде́льни
bogadélʹni
instrumental богаде́льней, богаде́льнею
bogadélʹnej, bogadélʹneju		 богаде́льнями
bogadélʹnjami
prepositional богаде́льне
bogadélʹne		 богаде́льнях
bogadélʹnjax

Derived terms
  • богаде́ленка (bogadélenka)
  • богаде́ленный (bogadélennyj)

Descendants
  • Belarusian: багадзельня (bahadzjelʹnja)
  • Ukrainian: богадільня (bohadilʹnja)

References
  • Anikin, A. E. (2009) “богадельня”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), numbers 3 (бе – болдыхать), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 295
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