басня

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *basnь.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbasnʲɐ]
• Rhymes: -asnʲɐ
• Syllabification^(key): ба‧сня
• Hyphenation^(key): бас‧ня

ба́сня • (básnja) f (diminutive ба́сничка)

1. fable (a fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc)
2. (figuratively) fable, untruth, cock-and-bull story, fib
3. (archaic, literary) myth

• “басня”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “басня”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

• бясна (bjasna)

• баснь (basnʹ) — archaic

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *basnь.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbasʲnʲə]

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ба́сня • (básnja) f inan (genitive ба́сни, nominative plural ба́сни, genitive plural ба́сен, relational adjective ба́сенный, diminutive ба́сенка)

1. (literary genre) fable
2. (figuratively) fable, untruth, cock-and-bull story, fib

Compounds:

• басносло́вный (basnoslóvnyj)
• баснопи́сец m (basnopísec)

• ба́йка f (bájka)
• ба́ять impf (bájatʹ)

Borrowed

• -фо́н (-fón)
  • микрофо́н m (mikrofón)
  • телефо́н m (telefón)
• фоне́тика f (fonétika)
• фоно- (fono-)
  • фоноте́ка f (fonotéka)
• эвфеми́зм m (evfemízm)

• → Ingrian: basnja

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “баснь”, 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.