Dictionary

varenye en · NOUN

Etymology

From Russian варе́нье (varénʹje, “jam, fruit preserves”).

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) A kind of sweet fruit preserve.
   • There were nuns who, when receiving guests, put two varieties of jam [“varenye” in Russian] in their plates and poured vegetable oil onto it. When asked why they had done that, the nuns replied, “This is what the Church calendar says: two ‘varenyes’ with oil.” 2021 April 6, Tatiana Veselkina, quoting Nadezhda Mokhova, translated by Dmitry Lapa, “In the House of the Mother of God: Protodeacon Nikolai and Nadezhda Mokhov from New York: Meeting Each Other and Seeing Christ. Part 2”, in Orthodox Christianity, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2021:
   • [Alexander] Pushkin’s favourite varenye, or liquidy jam, was gooseberry, and indeed it would have been hard not to have liked such a varenye made in the traditional way. 1994, Sputnik, numbers 5–8, Moscow: Novosti Printing House, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 171, column 2:

Forms

Relateds

varenyky

Synonyms

murabba

Translations (21)

de Warenje (kind of sweet fruit preserve) · udm варення (kind of sweet fruit preserve) · hi मुरब्बा (kind of sweet fruit preserve) · ug ۋارىنا (kind of sweet fruit preserve) · sah барыанньа (kind of sweet fruit preserve) · be варэ́нне (kind of sweet fruit preserve) · hy մուրաբա (kind of sweet fruit preserve) · az mürəbbə (kind of sweet fruit preserve) · uk варе́ння (kind of sweet fruit preserve) · fa مربا (kind of sweet fruit preserve) · tr murabba (kind of sweet fruit preserve) · ka მურაბა (kind of sweet fruit preserve) · ar مِرَبَّة (kind of sweet fruit preserve) · ur مربا (kind of sweet fruit preserve) · kk тосап (kind of sweet fruit preserve) · ba ҡайнатма (kind of sweet fruit preserve) · lt uogienė (kind of sweet fruit preserve) · ug ۋارىنە (kind of sweet fruit preserve) · ru варе́нье (kind of sweet fruit preserve) · xal варень (kind of sweet fruit preserve) · ja ヴァレニエ (kind of sweet fruit preserve)