Noun: matryoshka
| Singular | matryoshka |
| Plural | matryoshkas; matryoshki |
Sample Sentences
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The past is not only a foreign country that we half knew existed; it is hiding another concealed country behind it, and behind that one, another, and another – like a set of Russian matryoshki, in which larger dolls conceal smaller. [2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, page 35:]
Nouns inflected like matryoshka
kosovorotka,
baranka,
barista,
matrioshka,
sooshka,
matryoshka,
Avanguardista,
nalivka,
zakuska,
rubashka,
Camorrista,
nastoyka,
stotinka,
khrushchevka,
stilyaga,
lanista,
zemlyanka,
babushka,
dacha,
vedutista, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Russian матрёшка (matrjóška), from personal name Матрёна (Matrjóna), formerly Матрона (Matrona), ultimately from Latin mātrōna (“matron”). See: Russian Nouns '
матрёшка', Latin Nouns '
mātrōna'.