каин

See also: Каин

Russian

From Ка́ин (Káin, “biblical character — son of Adam and Eve”)

Ка́ин • (Káin) m anim (genitive Ка́ина) (figuratively)

betrayer, murderer
urchin, rascal
Synonyms: сорване́ц (sorvanéc), отча́янная голова́ (otčájannaja golová)

каин in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru
Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “каин”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.
каин in Orthographical Academic Resource AKADEMOS, V. V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences – hosted at gramota.ru

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