| лес |
| 1. n. forest, woods | |
| леса́ (lesá) — woodland, forests | |
| девственный лес (dévstvennyj) — virgin forest, primeval forest | |
| заповедный лес means: | |
| : заповедник - protection forest | |
| : тайный лес, священный лес, божий лес — sacred forest, a forest that nobody may enter | |
| корабельный лес (korabélnyj) — ship timber | |
| лиственный лес (lístvennyj) — leaf-bearing forest | |
| смешанный лес (sméšannyj) — mixed forest | |
| тропический лес (tropíčeskij) — rainforest | |
| хвойный лес (khvójnyj) — coniferous forest | |
| чаща леса — thicket, the depths of forest | |
| шум леса — murmur of the forest | |
| как в лесу (kak v lesú) (saying) — at sea, lost, disoriented | |
| кто в лес, кто по дрова (proverb) — (to be) at sixes and sevens (literal: some go to the forest, some go for firewood) | |
| лес рубят — щепки летят (proverb) — you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs (literally: when cutting trees, chips fly) | |
| (для него) это тёмный лес (or дремучий лес) (saying), — it is all Greek (to him), (he is) completely in the dark about it (literally: this is the dark forest for him) | |
| в лесу́ люди лесеют, а в людях людеют (proverb) — literal: in the forest people become wild, and become people among people | |
| чей лес, того и пень (proverb) — literally: the man who owns a forest, also owns a stump | |
| Бог и ле́су не сравня́л (saying) - literally: God doesn’t even make the forest equal, meaning that people are not equal | |
| 2. n. (only singular) lumber, timber | |
| лес в плотах (v plotákh) — timber float | |
| лес на корню (na kornjú) — standing timber | |
| 3. n. (only plural) леса́ scaffolding, scaffold trestle, falsework | |
| леса (lesá) — scaffolding, scaffold trestle | |
| 4. n. much, many, a lot of smth. (especially high, eminent) | |
| лес рук - a forest of hands (in school if nobody wants to answer the teacher’s question, it's used sarcastically, when nobody actually raises a hand, there is no forest of hands, not a single t | |
| лес мачт — a large number of ships | |
| лес штыков (štykóv) — forest of bayonets | |
