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  2. Tangzhong - Wikipedia

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    Tangzhong (Chinese: 湯種; pinyin: tāngzhǒng), also known as a water roux or yu-dane (Japanese: 湯種, romanized: yu-dane) [1] [2] is a paste of flour cooked in water or milk to over 65 °C (149 °F) which is used to improve the texture of bread and increase the amount of time it takes to stale.

  3. Slavic name suffixes - Wikipedia

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    All mean "descendant of Peter". This is similar to the use of "-son" or "-sen" in Germanic languages. In East Slavic languages (Belarusian, Russian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian) the same system of name suffixes can be used to express several meanings. One of the most common is the patronymic.

  4. Russian forms of addressing - Wikipedia

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    The system of Russian forms of addressing is used in Russian languages to indicate relative social status and the degree of respect between speakers. Typical language for this includes using certain parts of a person's full name, name suffixes , and honorific plural , as well as various titles and ranks.

  5. Russian alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Russian poet Alexander Pushkin wrote: "The [names of the] letters that make up the Slavonic alphabet don't represent a meaning at all. Аз, буки, веди, глаголь, добро etc. are individual words, chosen just for their initial sound". However, since the names of the first few letters of the Slavonic alphabet seem to form ...

  6. Glossary of Russian and USSR aviation acronyms: Aircraft ...

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    This is a Glossary of acronyms used for aircraft designations in the Russian Federation and formerly the USSR. The Latin-alphabet names are phonetic representations of the Cyrillic originals, and variations are inevitable.

  7. Names of Rus', Russia and Ruthenia - Wikipedia

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    The most common theory about the origins of Russians is the Germanic version. The name Rus ', like the Proto-Finnic name for Sweden (*roocci), [2] supposed to be descended from an Old Norse term for "the men who row" (rods-) as rowing was the main method of navigating the rivers of Eastern Europe, and that it could be linked to the Swedish coastal area of Roslagen or Roden, as it was known in ...

  8. Zhe (Cyrillic) - Wikipedia

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    Some Ukrainian scholars argue that it is shape of beetle, since Zhe is the first phoneme in the Slavic word жукъ (žuk), meaning "beetle". [1] In the Early Cyrillic alphabet the name of Zhe was живѣтє (živěte), meaning "live" (imperative). Zhe was not used in the Cyrillic numeral system.

  9. Mat (profanity) - Wikipedia

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    The mat-word "хуй" ("khuy") in Max Vasmer's Russisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [] (Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language). Heidelberg, 1950–1958. Mat (Russian: мат; матерщи́на / ма́терный язы́к, matershchina / materny yazyk) is the term for vulgar, obscene, or profane language in Russian and some other Slavic language communities.