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монастырь

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Ancient Greek μοναστήριον (monastḗrion), converged with words ending with "-ырь" (cf. пустырь). Further from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos).

Compare natively formed Serbo-Croatian самостан, Slovene samostan.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [mənɐˈstɨrʲ]
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  • Rhymes: -ɨrʲ

Noun

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монасты́рь (monastýrʹm inan (genitive монастыря́, nominative plural монастыри́, genitive plural монастыре́й, relational adjective монасты́рский)

  1. monastery, convent
    • 1790, Александр Радищев, “Новгород”, in Путешествие из Петербурга в Москву; English translation from Leo Wiener, transl., A Journey From St. Petersburg to Moscow, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958:
      В таковых размышлениях подъезжал я к Новугороду, смотря на множество монастырей, вокруг оного лежащих.
      V takovyx razmyšlenijax podʺjezžal ja k Novugorodu, smotrja na množestvo monastyrej, vokrug onovo ležaščix.
      With such thoughts I reached Novgorod and looked at the multitude of monasteries which lay around it.

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Borrowed

Derived from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos):

Descendants

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  • Ingrian: manasteri
  • Skolt Sami: manaster, manstar

See also

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References

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “монастырь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

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