Runglish Vocabulary

Russian English Vocabulary

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Runglish Punctuation

 

 

Contents

 

1. Runglish vocabulary derived from Russian

1.1 Common words

1.2 Cuisine words

1.3 Political, administrative words

1.4 Religious words

1.5 Technical words

1.6 Various words

2. Runglish vocabulary derived from English

 

 

 

 

Runglish Vocabulary

Russian English Vocabulary

Derived from Russian

 

Strictly speaking, this is the list of English words possibly borrowed from Russian. Not all of them are of truly Russian or Slavic origin. Some of them co-exist in other Slavic languages and it is difficult to decide whether they entered English from Russian or, say, from Polish, most notable of these being vodka. Some others are borrowed or constructed from classical ancient languages, such as Latin or Greek, still others are borrowed from indigenous peoples of the Russian Empire.

Most of them are used to denote things and notions specific to Russia, Russian culture, politics, history, especially well-known outside Russia: vodka, intelligentsia, taiga, tundra, pogrom. Possibly some others are in the mainstream usage, independent of Russian context.

 

Common

 

·                     babushka

·                     balaclava

·                     balalaika

·                     cosmonaut

·                     Cossack

·                     Gulag

·                     intelligentsia

·                     Kazakh

·                     knout

·                     kopek (kopeck, copeck)

·                     Kremlin

·                     mammoth

·                     matryoshka

·                     pogrom

·                     Brit rouble, US ruble

·                     samovar

·                     sputnik

·                     steppe

·                     taiga

·                     Troika (triumvirate)

·                     Troika (dance)

·                     troika (sled)

·                     tundra

·                     vodka

 

Cuisine

 

·                     babka, a kind of cake

·                     blin, also Yiddish blintz, pancake

·                     borsch

·                     kasha, buckwheat groats, Russian for porridge

·                     kephir (kefir)

·                     kumis (kumys)

·                     kvass (kvas)

·                     pirogi, also Polish pierogi (plural), dumplings or pies

·                     pirozhki (piroshki), small pirogi

·                     shashlik

·                     sirniki

·                     vareniki

 

Political, Administrative

 

·                     agitprop

·                     apparatchik

·                     Bolshevik

·                     boyar

·                     Cheka

·                     commissar

·                     DOSAAF

·                     Duma

·                     dvoryanstvo, dvoryanin

·                     FSB

·                     glasnost

·                     guberniya

·                     Kadet

·                     KGB

·                     kniaz

·                     kolkhoz

·                     kulak

·                     krai

·                     Leninism

·                     MGB

·                     Menshevik

·                     mir

·                     MVD

·                     N'et - as in Mr. N'ET (Mr. Gromyko was known as Mr. N'ET)

·                     NEP

·                     NKVD

·                     nomenklatura

·                     obshchina

·                     oblast

·                     okhranka

·                     okrug

·                     oprichnina

·                     oprichnik

·                     perestroika

·                     pyatiletka

·                     Politburo

·                     propiska

·                     rayon

·                     siloviki

·                     Smersh

·                     soviet

·                     sovkhoz

·                     Sovmin

·                     Sovnarkhoz

·                     Sovnarkom

·                     stakhanovite

·                     stalinism

·                     Stavka

·                     tsar, tsardom, tsaritsa, tsarevna, tsarevich, tsesarevich

·                     ukase

·                     Yevsektsiya

·                     zampolit

·                     zemshchina

·                     Zemsky Sobor

·                     zemstvo

 

Religious

 

·                     Doukhobor

·                     Chlysty

·                     Lippovan, Lipovan, Lipovans

·                     Molokan

·                     Raskol

·                     Raskolnik

·                     skoptzy

 

Technical

 

·                           Tokamak

 

Various

 

·                           BAM

·                           Belomorkanal (canal) and Belomorkanal (cigarettes)

·                           banya

·                           bylina

·                           chainik

·                           chastushka

·                           chernozem

·                           dacha

·                           katorga

·                           Lysenkoism

·                           palochka

·                           Pravda

·                           samizdat

·                           sharashka

·                           Spetsnaz

·                           tatary

·                           titlo

·                           yaranga

·                           yurodivy

·                           Some Russian letters:

o                    ya

o                    yat

o                    yer

 

Runglish Vocabulary

Russian English Vocabulary

Derived from English

 

English → Runglish

Abortion → Abort

African American → Negro

Arse → Ass (American preference)

Astronaut → Cosmonaut

Brown bread → Black bread

Building → House

By means of → With the help of

Chancellor → Rector

Class, period, lecture, etc → Lesson

Committee → Commission

Condom → Preservative

Conference → Conferension

Correct → Right

Cousin → Brother/sister

Dad(dy) → Father

Dinner → Supper

Distinctive → Specific

Father Christmas → Grandfather Frost

Ground floor → First floor

(Female) friend → Girlfriend

(Male) friend → Boyfriend

Handsome → Beautiful

Hard → Hardly

Issue (of a magazine) → Number

(The) latest → Last

Lecturer, professor, reader etc → Teacher

Lunch → Dinner

Mum(my), Mom(my) → Mother

New → Fresh

Particular → Concrete

Police (in Russia) → Militia

Saunta Claus → Grandfather Frost

Street → Road

To convey → To express

To damage → To injure

To die → To be dead

To do sport → To go in for sport

To leave something (at home) → To forget something (at home)

To lock → To close

To shut → To close

To tell somebody → To say to somebody

Town → City

Underground → Metro

Violation → Breaking

Would like → To want

 

 

 

 

Runglish Vocabulary

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