Family

"Family" in Russian

семейный

semejnyj

(suitable for children and adults)

род

rod

(group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

семе́йный

seméjnyj

((used attributively))

семе́йство

seméjstvo

(immediate family [as a group], e.g. parents and their children)

семе́йство

seméjstvo

(group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

семе́йство

seméjstvo

(rank in a taxonomic classification, above both genus and species)

семья́

semʹjá

(immediate family [as a group], e.g. parents and their children)

семья́

semʹjá

(group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

семья́

semʹjá

(linguistics: a group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language)

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