дрын

Russian

Etymology

Supposed by Moscow circle philologers Proto-Slavic *drynъ, as also found in a dialectal Ukrainian дрін (drin); were it so, it would probably be borrowed from a descendant of Proto-Indo-Iranian *dráwnam, however the word is not even attested before the 20th century, but entered argots, internet corners and political discourse from Soviet-era regiolects, so can be presumed to be an expressive formation from драть (dratʹ), like in the 18th already was formed дрянь (drjanʹ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [drɨn]
• Rhymes: -ɨn

Noun

дрын • (dryn) m inan (genitive дры́на, nominative plural дры́ны, genitive plural дры́нов)

1. (also figuratively) cudgel
2. (vulgar) fuckpole, tallywhacker, truncheon

Declension

Declension of дрын (inan masc-form hard-stem accent-a) 

	singular	plural
nominative	дры́н drýn	дры́ны drýny
genitive	дры́на drýna	дры́нов drýnov
dative	дры́ну drýnu	дры́нам drýnam
accusative	дры́н drýn	дры́ны drýny
instrumental	дры́ном drýnom	дры́нами drýnami
prepositional	дры́не drýne	дры́нах drýnax

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*drynъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 145
• Шапошников, Александр Константинович (2007) “Сарматские и туранские языковые реликты Северного Причерноморья”, in Этимология (2003-2005). К 75-летию О. Н. Трубачева‎^[1] (in Russian), page 279
• Филин, Ф. П., editor (1972), “дрын”, in Slovarʹ russkix narodnyx govorov [Dictionary of Russian Dialects] (in Russian), volume 8, Leningrad: Nauka, Leningrad branch, page 222