лён

See also: лен, лењ, and лэн

Russian

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic льнъ (lĭnŭ), from Proto-Slavic *lьnъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *lína, from Proto-Indo-European *linom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lʲɵn]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

лён • (ljon) m inan (genitive льна, nominative plural льны, genitive plural льнов, relational adjective льняно́й or льно́вый)

1. flax

Declension

Declension of лён (inan masc-form hard-stem accent-b reduc) 

	singular	plural
nominative	лён ljón	льны́ lʹný
genitive	льна́ lʹná	льно́в lʹnóv
dative	льну́ lʹnú	льна́м lʹnám
accusative	лён ljón	льны́ lʹný
instrumental	льно́м lʹnóm	льна́ми lʹnámi
prepositional	льне́ lʹné	льна́х lʹnáx
locative	льну́ lʹnú

Derived terms

Compounds:

• го́рный лён m (górnyj ljon)

Further reading

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “лён”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.