псина

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pьsina. By surface analysis, пёс (pjos, “a dog”) +‎ -и́на (-ína)

• IPA^(key): [ˈpsʲinə]

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пси́на • (psína) f inan or f anim (genitive пси́ны, nominative plural пси́ны, genitive plural псин, diminutive пси́нка)

1. dogmeat, dog flesh
2. smell of a dog, doggy odor
3. (colloquial) augmentative of пёс (pjos); a (large) dog

   пси́на суту́лая ― psína sutúlaja ― hunchbacked dog (insult)

• пёс m anim (pjos)

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “пёс”, 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.
• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “по-песьи”, 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.
• Kuznetsov, Sergey Alexandrovich (1998), “псина”, in Большой толковый словарь русского языка [Great Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Norint, →ISBN

• спина́ (spiná)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pьsina.

• IPA^(key): /psîna/
• Hyphenation: пси‧на

пси̏на f (Latin spelling psȉna)

1. (augmentative) dog
2. (usually Croatia) prank, practical joke