"лень" meaning in Russian

See лень in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: [lʲenʲ] Audio: Ru-лень.ogg Forms: lenʹ [romanization], лѣнь [alternative]
Rhymes: -enʲ Etymology: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lěnь. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|ru|sla-pro|*lěnь|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Proto-Slavic *lěnь, {{inh+|ru|sla-pro|*lěnь}} Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lěnь Head templates: {{head|ru|predicative}} лень • (lenʹ)
  1. (colloquial) (do/does) not want; feels lazy (to do something) Tags: colloquial, predicative Derived forms: Phrases, лень вперёд него́ родила́сь lenʹ vperjód nevó rodilásʹ) (alt: его́; (jevó), Proverbs, лень — дви́гатель прогре́сса (alt: lenʹ — dvígatelʹ progréssa) Related terms: лени́вец (lenívec) [animate, masculine], лени́вый (lenívyj), лени́ться (lenítʹsja) [imperfective], ле́ность (lénostʹ) [feminine], лентя́й (lentjáj) [animate, masculine], лентя́йка (lentjájka) [animate, feminine, inanimate]
    Sense id: en-лень-ru-adj-qcEhMsUX Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Russian entries with incorrect language header, Russian links with redundant alt parameters, Russian links with redundant wikilinks, Russian nouns with accent pattern a, Russian predicatives Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 87 13 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 95 5 Disambiguation of Russian entries with incorrect language header: 87 13 Disambiguation of Russian links with redundant alt parameters: 83 17 Disambiguation of Russian links with redundant wikilinks: 85 15 Disambiguation of Russian nouns with accent pattern a: 65 35 Disambiguation of Russian predicatives: 92 8

Noun

IPA: [lʲenʲ] Audio: Ru-лень.ogg
Rhymes: -enʲ Etymology: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lěnь. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|ru|sla-pro|*lěnь|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Proto-Slavic *lěnь, {{inh+|ru|sla-pro|*lěnь}} Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lěnь Head templates: {{ru-noun+||f|dim=ленца́|n=sg}} лень • (lenʹ) f inan (genitive ле́ни, uncountable, diminutive ленца́) Forms: lenʹ [romanization], ле́ни [genitive], ленца́ [diminutive], no-table-tags [table-tags], ле́нь [nominative, singular], ле́ни [genitive, singular], ле́ни [dative, singular], ле́нь [accusative, singular], ле́нью [instrumental, singular], ле́ни [prepositional, singular], лѣнь [alternative]
  1. laziness, idleness, indolence Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-лень-ru-noun-5cUGT-w7

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          "roman": "mne sevódnja lenʹ učítʹsja",
          "text": "мне сего́дня лень учи́ться",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(do/does) not want; feels lazy (to do something)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "want",
          "want"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) (do/does) not want; feels lazy (to do something)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "predicative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[lʲenʲ]"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Ru-лень.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/65/Ru-%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8C.ogg/Ru-%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8C.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Ru-%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8C.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-enʲ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "лень"
}

Download raw JSONL data for лень meaning in Russian (6.2kB)


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