ворвань

Inherited from Old East Slavic вървонъ (vŭrvonŭ, “huntable marine mammal”), which is conventionally believed to derive from Old East Norse narhval.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvorvənʲ]

во́рвань • (vórvanʹ) f inan (genitive во́рвани, uncountable, relational adjective во́рванный)

1. (dated) train oil, whale oil, seal oil, fish oil (liquid oil produced by rendering marine mammal blubber or oily fish)
2. (dated, by extension) blubber

• во́рванить (vórvanitʹ)
• во́рванщик (vórvanščik)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ворвань”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “ворвань”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.

Inherited from Old East Slavic вървонъ (vŭrvonŭ, “huntable marine mammal”), which is conventionally believed to derive from Old East Norse narhval.

• IPA^(key): [ˈwɔrʋɐnʲ]

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во́рвань • (vórvanʹ) f inan (genitive во́рвані, uncountable)

1. (dated) train oil, whale oil, seal oil, fish oil (liquid oil produced by rendering marine mammal blubber or oily fish)

• “ворвань”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horox – Slovozmina, Horokh – Inflection]‎^[1]