линия

Borrowed from Polish linia or German Linie, from Latin līnea (“line, thread”), from līnum (“flax”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno-. From the same Indo-European root derives лён (ljon, “flax”) (< *lьnъ (“flax”)).

• IPA^(key): [ˈlʲinʲɪjə]

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ли́ния • (línija) f inan (genitive ли́нии, nominative plural ли́нии, genitive plural ли́ний)

1. line (path through two or more points, or figuratively)

   технологи́ческая ли́ния ― texnologíčeskaja línija ― production line

   железнодоро́жная ли́ния ― železnodoróžnaja línija ― railroad line

   ли́ния электропереда́чи ― línija elektroperedáči ― power line

   насле́дственная ли́ния ― naslédstvennaja línija ― line of descent

2. (historical) line (old Russian unit of length equal to 1/10 of an inch, or 2.54 mm)
3. (dated) a building housing a row of adjacent trading stalls; a cloth hall
4. type of street or one side of a street

   дом на 8-й ли́нии Васи́льевского о́строва ― dom na 8-j línii Vasílʹjevskovo óstrova ― a house on 8th Line of Vasilyevsky Island

• черта́ (čertá)
• полоса́ (polosá)
• ряд (rjad)