Russia · An umbrella term for the territory of modern Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, inhabited by the East Slavic Christian Orthodox people. Used until the 20th century. · name of a St. Petersburg daily newspaper published from 1903 to 1908
çekim: tamlayan руси́
eş: Русская земля, Древняя Русь
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ).
Russia (a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia; official name: Ресей Федерациясы (Resei Federasiäsy))
köken: Borrowed from Russian Росси́я (Rossíja) or Russian Россі́й- (Rossíj-, stem), from Byzantine Greek Ῥωσία (Rhōsía), from Old East Slavic Роусь (Rusĭ), from Proto-Finnic *roocci. Compare also Siberian Tatar Рәсәй (Räsäy), Bashkir Рәсәй (Rəsəy), Tatar Рәсәй (Räsäy), and Chuvash Раҫҫей (Raśśej).
Russia (a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia)
çekim: çoğul venäjät · tamlayan venäjän
köken: Ultimately from the Germanic name for the Wends (or any Slavs), through the now rare noun venät (“Russian”) by later analogy with the genitive forms; see venät for more. The shorter root is found in derivations like venäläinen and in other Finnic languages like Veps veńa. Cognates include Estonian vene, Venemaa.
Russia (a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia; official name: Ruská federace)
eş: Ruská federace, Rus, Rusy, Rusie
köken: From Rus + -sko.
Etimoloji
From Medieval Latin Russia, from Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ, “Varangians, inhabitants of Rus”). Equivalent to rus + -ia. From Old Romanian Rusia, where -i- is stressed, from Early Romanian *Rrusî́ia, from South Slavic dialect Rusȉja (> Serbo-Croatian Rùsija).