varenye

plural varenyes · alternative varenie · alternative varenje

1. uncountableusuallyA kind of sweet fruit preserve.

   [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

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   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

   Synonyms: murabba