varenye

Noun

varenye (usually uncountable, plural varenyes)

1. (usually) A 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
   • 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...

   Synonyms:

   murabba