valenki

English

Russian valenki

Etymology

From Russian ва́ленки (válenki), singular ва́ленок (válenok).

Noun

valenki pl (normally plural, singular valenok)

1. Traditional Russian felt boots.
   • 1999, Hanna Davidson Pankowsky, East of the Storm: Outrunning the Holocaust in Russia:

     With our feet protected from frostbite in our valenki, we were able to walk outside. The valenki came just in time, since the temperature was falling rapidly and the winter was fierce beyond normal.

Translations

winter felt boots

• Bashkir: быйма (bıyma), пима (pima)
• Belarusian: валёнкі m pl (valjónki)
• Bulgarian: ва́ленки pl (válenki)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 氈靴／毡靴 (zh) (zhānxuē)

• Czech: válenky m pl
• Dolgan: каатынка sg (kaatınka), каатынкалар pl (kaatınkalar)
• Estonian: vildid pl
• Finnish: huopatossut (fi) pl
• French: valenki (fr) pl
• German: Walenki pl, Filzstiefel m sg or m pl
• Greek: βάλενκι (válenki)
• Japanese: ワレンキ (warenki), バレンキ (barenki)
• Karelian: kuatančat, singular form kuatančča
• Kazakh: пима (pima), байпақ (baipaq)
• Korean: 발렌키 (ballenki)
• Kumyk: уюкъ sg (uyuq), уюкълар pl (uyuqlar)
• Kyrgyz: пима (ky) (pima)
• Lithuanian: veltiniai pl
• Polish: walonki pl
• Russian: ва́ленок (ru) m (válenok), ва́ленки (ru) m pl (válenki)
• Southern Altai: пыйма (pïyma)
• Spanish: válenki pl
• Swedish: filtstövel
• Tatar: пима (pima)
• Ukrainian: повстя́ники m pl (povstjányky), ва́лянки (uk) m pl (váljanky), повстяки́ m pl (povstjaký)

Anagrams

• vanlike

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian валенки (valenki).

Noun

valenki

1. valenki

Declension

Declension of valenki

	singular	plural
nominative	valenki	valenkiler
genitive	valenkiniñ	valenkilerniñ
dative	valenkige	valenkilerge
accusative	valenkini	valenkilerni
locative	valenkide	valenkilerde
ablative	valenkiden	valenkilerden

References

• “valenki”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)