Imiarek
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Imiarek
(Church Slavonic, literally “someone who has been named”), used in modern Russian (sometimes ironically) instead of the name of an unknown person or when the person’s name is deliberately not mentioned. In old juridical acts, chancery papers, and ecclesiastical books “imiarek” was used when the text called for the repetition of a proper name.
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