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- Russian · borrowed fromцелина́
- English todaytselina
From Russian целина́ (celiná).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
tselina
Today it means: A "virgin land": an underdeveloped, scarcely populated, high-fertility region of land often covered with chernozem soil in Russia and Kazakhstan. Full definition →
Russian целина́