Russia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌʃə/
ipa: /ˈɹʌ.ʃɐ/
ipa: /ˈɹʊ.ʃɐ/
rhymes: -ʌʃə
homophone: rusher
Forms: form: Russias
Etymology: 1390s, from Medieval Latin Russia, from Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ) (whence Arabic رُوس (rūs) and Byzantine Greek Ῥῶς (Rhôs)), which originally referred to a group of Varangians who established themselves near Kiev in the 9th century and ruled Kievan Rus; probably from Proto-Finnic *roocci, from Old East Norse *roþs- (“related to rowing”); related to Old Norse Roþrslandi (“the land of rowing”), an older name of Roslagen, where the Finns first encountered the Swedes. Ultimately from Old Norse róðr (“steering oar”), from Proto-Germanic *rōþrą (“rudder”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”). Doublet of Rossiya.
Senses: examples: text: “Revoking PNTR for Russia is going to make it harder for Russia to do business with the United States and doing it in unison with other nations that make up half of the global economy will be another crushing blow to the Russian economy that’s already suffering very badly from our sanctions,” Biden said.
ref: 2022 March 10, Kaitlan Collins, Manu Raju, Kate Sullivan, MJ Lee and John Harwood, “Biden calls for suspending normal trade relations with Russia and will ban imports of vodka and seafood”, in CNN:
text: Russia is unable to honor its arms delivery commitments to India because of the war in Ukraine, the Indian Air Force (IAF) said, placing a potential strain on New Delhi’s relationship with its largest defense supplier as Moscow attempts to ramp up weapons production.
ref: 2023 March 24, Rhea Mogul, “Russia can’t meet India arms deliveries due to Ukraine war, Indian Air Force says”, in CNN:
glosses: A transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. Official name: Russian Federation. Capital and largest city: Moscow. It borders the Pacific and Arctic Oceans and the Baltic, Black, and Caspian Seas. Part of the Soviet Union from 1917 through 1991.
glosses: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (a very common name, although more formally Russia, the RSFSR, was one of several constituent republics of the USSR).
examples: text: Ukraine (“frontier”), the name formerly given to a district of European Russia, now comprising the governments of Kharkov, Kiev, Podolia and Poltava.
ref: 1911, “Ukraine”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
glosses: The Russian Empire; the tsarist empire in Russia lasting from 1721 to 1917.
examples: text: Ukraine (“frontier”), the name formerly given to a district of European Russia, now comprising the governments of Kharkov, Kiev, Podolia and Poltava.
ref: 1911, “Ukraine”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
glosses: Kievan Rus; the medieval East Slavic state centered in Kiev.
examples: text: Or rather if I be attaining a better autocratship than that of the Emperor of all the Russias — the empire over self.
ref: 1842, George Eliot, Selections from George Eliot's letters, Letter to Cara Bray, page 24:
text: Ukraine (“frontier”), the name formerly given to a district of European Russia, now comprising the governments of Kharkov, Kiev, Podolia and Poltava.
ref: 1911, “Ukraine”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
text: Then there is White Russia and Red Russia, Great Russia and Little Russia, Russia of the Frozen North and Russia of the Far East — a Russia equally dangerous to every one of her neighbours […]
ref: 1914, Russia and the Russian People:
glosses: Any of several East Slavic states descended from Kievan Rus, typically including Russia (Great Russia), Belarus (White Russia) and Ukraine (Little Russia).
Synonyms: Mordor
Orcistan
RF
Rossia
Rossiia
Rossija
Rossiya
RuSSia
Russian Federation
Ruzzia
Meronyms: Siberia
Novaya Zemlya
Derived terms: Black Russia
Blue Russia
European Russia
Great Russia
Kievan Russia
Little Russia
Mother Russia
New Russia
Red Russia
RuSSia
Russia Alba
Russia ashes
Russia braid
Russia calf
Russia crash
Russia drab
Russia iron
Russia leather
Russia linen
Russia matting
Russia musquash
Russian
Russia oil
Tsardom of Russia
White Russia