Glossary Term
Risk: Medium- Approved rendering
- призвание
- Transliteration
- prizvaniye
- Rejected alternatives
- предназначение
Calling
Noun form. предназначение (destiny/predetermined purpose) is close in everyday secular Russian usage but drifts toward fatalism (судьба); призвание keeps the personal, relational sense of being summoned by God rather than assigned an impersonal fate.
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