English Explanatory Dictionary

sotnia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A Russian or Ukrainian army unit of about a hundred soldiers, chiefly with reference to Cossacks.

Word forms

sotnia sotnias sotnya

Etymology

From Russian сотня (sotnja, “hundred”).

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