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- Russian · borrowed fromбезпоповцы
- English todayBezpopovtsy
Borrowed from Russian безпоповцы (bezpopovcy) (pre-1917 spelling; modern spelling is беспоповцы (bespopovcy)). From без- (bez-) + поп (pop, “priest”) + -ов- (-ov-) + -цы (-cy) (plural of -ец (-ec)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.