деревня

• дерёвня (derjóvnja) — dialectal or slang[1]

Inherited from Old East Slavic дере́внꙗ (derévnja), from Proto-Slavic *dьrvьňa.

Cognates include Latvian druva (“cornfield, plough-land”) and Lithuanian dirvà (“field, land”), also Lithuanian dirvónas (“fallow field, set-aside land”). Baltic borrowing (with later semantic change from plough-land to homestead and then to hamlet) is likely considering the lack of cognates in other Slavic languages.

• IPA^(key): [dʲɪˈrʲevnʲə]

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дере́вня • (derévnja) f inan (genitive дере́вни, nominative plural дере́вни, genitive plural дереве́нь, relational adjective дереве́нский, diminutive дереве́нька or дереву́шка)

1. village, hamlet

   Synonyms: посёлок (posjólok), поселе́ние (poselénije), село (selo), селе́ние (selénije), стани́ца (staníca), ху́тор (xútor)

2. (collective) the countryside, the rural population
3. (colloquial, both feminine and masculine with animacy) yokel, bumpkin

   Synonym: дереве́нщина (derevénščina)

   Дере́вня! Э́то не пиджа́к, э́то смо́кинг. ― Derévnja! Éto ne pidžák, éto smóking. ― What a yokel! This isn't a coat, it’s a tuxedo.

   Сиди́т? — Кто? — Ну, мужи́к […] — О дере́вня, а? […] Кто ж его́ поса́дит?! Он же па́мятник!

   Sidít? — Kto? — Nu, mužík […] — O derévnja, a? […] Kto ž jevó posádit?! On že pámjatnik!

   Is he sitting? — Who? — That man. — Bumpkin! Who could throw him in prison? He’s a monument! (Play on the meanings of сидеть, meaning to sit and to be in prison, in the movie, Gentlemen of Fortune)

4. (collective, dialectal) a tree
5. (dialectal) a place which is not a wild field
6. (dialectal) a rural community
7. (dialectal) a bunch of fallen trees

• Traditionally, дере́вня (derévnja) referred to a smaller village without a church, while село́ (seló) referred to a larger village with a church.

• дереве́нщина f (derevénščina)
• однодереве́нец m (odnoderevénec)

• → Kazakh: деревня (derevnä)
• → Komi-Yazva: диревня (ďirevńa)
• → Kyrgyz: деревня (derevnya)
• → Southern Altai: деремне (deremne)
• → Yakut: дэриэбинэ (deriebine)

• Филин, Ф. П., editor (1972), “дере́вня”, in Slovarʹ russkix narodnyx govorov [Dictionary of Russian Dialects] (in Russian), volume 8, Leningrad: Nauka, Leningrad branch, page 13