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]
Audio: (file)
Noun
чре́сла • (črésla) n inan pl (genitive чресл, plural only)
- (archaic, anatomy) reins, small of the back
Declension
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “чресла”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress