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sotnya

sotnya is the alternative form of sotnia.

Meaning of sotnia

Noun

sotnia (plural sotnias)

  1. (historical) A Russian or Ukrainian army unit of about a hundred soldiers, chiefly with reference to Cossacks.
    • On March 27 Mischtschenko marched from Koksan to Chonju, with 2 sotnias out of the 6 as advance guard.1908, Reconnaissance in the Russo-Japanese War, page 33

Forms of sotnya

pluralsotnyas

Questions about sotnya

What is sotnya the alternative form of?
Sotnya is the alternative form of sotnia.

Words near sotnya in the dictionary

  1. SOTN
  2. sotnia
  3. sotnias
  4. sotnik
  5. sotniks
  6. sotnya
  7. sotnyas
  8. sotnyk
  9. sotnyks
  10. soto
  11. soto ayam

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sotnya (page history and authors); sotnia (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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