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Are there any Russian inanimate masculine nouns ending in -я?

I can think of many feminine ones (торговля, трескотня, болтовня, мастерская, спальня, келья, etc.), but are there any masculine ones?

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  • just to confirm: are you asking about declinable nouns? па, квенья and similar are masculine inanimate, but undeclinable.
    – Quassnoi ♦
    Jun 17, 2015 at 15:42
  • I am asking about masculine inanimate nouns regardless of whether they decline or not. Looks like an answer to my question. Please re-write it as an answer.
    – brilliant
    Jun 17, 2015 at 15:53

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There is a number of indeclinable masculine loanwords ending in -а, -я: квенья, фула, гёдза etc. which accepted the gender of their respective generic terms: язык ("language"), пельмень ("dumpling")

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Possibly, some names of some cities would fit the bill:

В древности Антакья, именовавшийся как Антиохия-на-Оронте, был важным политическим и культурным центром, столицей империи Селевкидов. Сейчас он является центром турецкого района Хатай

Вея (араб. وع‎‎) — небольшой город на востоке Джибути, в регионе Арта. Расположен на дороге N1, которая соединяет город со столицей страны.

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    Please note that Антакья and Вея aren't Russian ones.
    – Paul
    Jun 17, 2015 at 6:39
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    @brilliant: city names in -а, -я are treated as feminine in Russian if they decline at all. The masculine in the quotes agrees with implied город.
    – Quassnoi ♦
    Jun 17, 2015 at 7:27
  • Evidently the masculine gender here refers to noun город rather than the city name.
    – Anixx
    Jun 17, 2015 at 9:40
  • @Quassnoi - "city names in -а, -я are treated as feminine in Russian if they decline at all. The masculine in the quotes agrees with implied город" - So, I am puzzled, does that meant that such phrases like "Можга всегда был городом Удмуртии", "Мянття всегда был финским городом", "Ханья не всегда был городом Греции", "Чувашский Шумерля, вначале был посёлком, а потом стал городом" are all grammatically wrong?
    – brilliant
    Jun 17, 2015 at 15:12
  • @brilliant: not sure whether Мянття and Ханья decline, but the rest are definitely wrong.
    – Quassnoi ♦
    Jun 17, 2015 at 15:19
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No.

only animate: судия, мессия, дядя,

ровня. this is common: он ровня, она ровня. also animate

In addition: http://lit.lib.ru/m/martinowich_g_a/2rod_s.shtml

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  • I thought both of these are animate. They both refer to a human being.
    – Aleks G
    Jun 16, 2015 at 19:18
  • Ну уж если одушевленные в пример, тогда самые распространенные: папуля, дедуля, сынуля :)
    – Avtokod
    Jun 16, 2015 at 19:28
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    ровня is not common. It is feminine: он - моя ровня, not он - мой ровня. Similar to пара.
    – Anixx
    Jun 17, 2015 at 1:00
  • @Anixx wiktionary - ровня
    – Vasil
    Jun 17, 2015 at 9:10
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    @Anixx хотя, конечно, "он — моя ровня" убеждает))
    – Vasil
    Jun 17, 2015 at 9:18

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