чресла

Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic чрѣсла (črěsla), from Proto-Slavic *čerslo. Displaced the native East Slavic form че́ресла (čéresla).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ɕrʲesɫə]

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Noun

чре́сла • (črésla) n inan pl (genitive чресл, plural only)

1. (archaic, anatomy) reins, small of the back

   Synonyms: поясни́ца (pojasníca), бедро (bedro), бёдра (bjódra); чересло (čereslo), че́ресла (čéresla, dialectal)

Declension

Declension of чре́сла (inan pl-only neut-form hard-stem accent-a) 

	plural
nominative	чре́сла črésla
genitive	чре́сл črésl
dative	чре́слам čréslam
accusative	чре́сла črésla
instrumental	чре́слами čréslami
prepositional	чре́слах čréslax

References

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