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bylini

bylini is the plural of bylina.

Meaning of bylina

Noun

bylina (plural bylinas or bylini or byliny)

  1. A traditional East Slavic oral epic narrative poem.
    • We may compare the above notions with the categories of A. M. Astahova in her analysis of Russian epics, the bylina.2003, Lauri Harvilahti, The holy mountain: studies on Upper Altay Oral poetry, page 66

Questions about bylini

What is bylini the plural of?
Bylini is the plural of bylina.

Words near bylini in the dictionary

  1. byline
  2. bylined
  3. byliner
  4. byliners
  5. bylines
  6. bylini
  7. bylining
  8. byliny
  9. Bylong
  10. Bylsma
  11. Bylsmas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bylini (page history and authors); bylina (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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