Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

varenye

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: varenye
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of sweet fruit preserve.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"[Alexander] Pushkin’s favourite varenye, or liquidy jam, was gooseberry, and indeed it would have been hard not to have liked such a varenye made in the traditional way."
"There were nuns who, when receiving guests, put two varieties of jam [“varenye” in Russian] in their plates and poured vegetable oil onto it. When asked why they had done that, the nuns replied, “This is what the Church calendar says: two ‘varenyes’ with oil.”"

Etymology

From Russian варе́нье (varénʹje, “jam, fruit preserves”).

Origin

Source language: Russian

Word Breakdown

Root: варе́нье

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

varenyes (plural) varenie (alternative) varenje (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

varenyky

Synonyms

murabba

Questions

What does varenye mean?: A kind of sweet fruit preserve.
Where does varenye come from?: It is traced to Russian.

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