пе́кло

rare #10819

nounneuterinanimateuncountable

1.
scorching heat, blazing heat, sweltering heat
На у́лице тако́е пе́кло, что невозмо́жно дыша́ть.
It is such scorching heat outside that you can hardly breathe.
Colloquial; of weather or a very hot place.
2.
hell, inferno, thick of it
Он бро́сился в са́мое пе́кло сраже́ния.
He threw himself into the very thick of the battle.
Figurative; also of the hottest point of a battle or of trouble.

Declension