voivode

See also: voïvode

English

Etymology

Variously from a number of Slavic languages including Bulgarian войвода (vojvoda), Czech vojevoda, Polish wojewoda, Russian воево́да (vojevóda), and Serbo-Croatian vojvoda, војвода, all from Proto-Slavic *vojevoda (“army leader; duke; warlord”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔɪˌvəʊd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔɪˌvoʊd/
• Hyphenation: voi‧vode

Noun

voivode (plural voivodes)

1. A local ruler or official in various parts of central and eastern Europe, especially early semi-independent rulers of Transylvania.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 27, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     George Sechell […], having been defeated in a battle by the Vayvoda of Transylvania, and taken Prisoner, was for three days together tied naked to a wooden horse, exposed to all manner of tortures, any man might devise against him […].

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, “Jonathan Harker’s Journal—Continued”, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC, page 32:

     Who was it but one of my own race who as Voivode crossed the Danube and beat the Turk on his own ground? This was a Dracula indeed!

2. An administrative chief in modern Poland.

Alternative forms

• woiwode, wojewoda, woywode, vaivode, voevod, voevoda, voivod, vojvoda, vojvode, voyevoda, voyvoda

obsolete and less common forms

• woywod (obsolete)
• waywode (obsolete)
• voivoda (archaic)
• waiwode (archaic)
• voyvode
• voievod
• vayvode (obsolete)
• voevode
• voievode
• voyevode
• vaivoda (obsolete)
• waivode
• wojewod
• vojvod
• voievoda
• voyvod
• wojwode (obsolete)
• vaivod (obsolete)
• vojevoda
• woyewoda
• vaiwode (obsolete)
• vayvoda (obsolete)
• waywod (obsolete)
• wayvode (obsolete)
• vaywode (obsolete)
• waywoda (obsolete, uncommon)
• woywoda (obsolete, uncommon)
• wojwoda (obsolete, uncommon)
• woivode (obsolete, uncommon)
• woiwoda (obsolete, uncommon)
• wojwod (uncommon)
• woiwoda (obsolete, uncommon)
• waivod (obsolete, uncommon)
• wayvoda (obsolete, uncommon)
• waiwod (rare)
• woewoda (rare)
• waiwoda (obsolete, rare)
• woiewoda (obsolete, rare)
• vojevode (rare)
• woiewode (rare)
• vojevod (rare)
• wayvod (obsolete, rare)
• woyewode (obsolete, rare)
• woyvode (obsolete, rare)
• voywode (obsolete, very rare)
• woewod (very rare)
• wayvod (obsolete, very rare)
• woyewode (obsolete, very rare)
• woyvode (obsolete, very rare)
• voywode (obsolete, very rare)
• woiewod (very rare)
• woewode (obsolete, very rare)

Derived terms

• voivodeship

Related terms

• Vojvodina

Translations

local ruler or official in various parts of central and eastern Europe

• Belarusian: ваяво́да m (vajavóda)
• Bulgarian: войво́да (bg) m (vojvóda)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 軍政長官／军政长官 (jūnzhèng zhǎngguān)

• Czech: vévoda (cs) m, vejvoda m
• Finnish: voivodi (fi)
• French: voïvode (fr) m
• Georgian: ვოევოდა (voevoda)
• German: Wojewode (de) m, Woiwode (de) m
• Greek: βοεβόδας (el) m (voevódas)
• Hungarian: vajda (hu)
• Japanese: ヴォイヴォダ (voivoda)
• Kashubian: wòjewòda m
• Latin: voivoda f
• Latvian: vojevoda m
• Lithuanian: vaivada m
• Macedonian: во́јвода m (vójvoda)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: воѥвода m (vojevoda)

• Polabian: våjvåda m
• Polish: wojewoda (pl) m
• Portuguese: voivoda (pt) m
• Romanian: voievod (ro) m
• Russian: воево́да (ru) m (vojevóda)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: војвода m

  Roman: vojvoda (sh) m

• Slovak: vojvoda m
• Slovene: vojvoda (sl) m
• Spanish: voevoda m, vaivoda, voivoda
• Swedish: vojvod (sv) c
• Turkish:

  Modern Turkish: voyvoda (tr), vayvoda

  Ottoman Turkish: ویوده (voyvoda, vayvoda)

• Ukrainian: воєво́да m (vojevóda)
• Yakut: бойобуода (boyobuoda)
• Yiddish: וואָיעוואָדע m (voyevode)

administrative chief in modern Poland

• Belarusian: ваяво́да m (vajavóda)
• Finnish: voivodi (fi)
• Hungarian: vajda (hu)
• Kashubian: wòjewòda m
• Polish: wojewoda (pl) m
• Russian: воево́да (ru) m (vojevóda)
• Turkish: voyvoda (tr)
• Ukrainian: воєво́да m (vojevóda)

Further reading

• voivode on Wikipedia.Wikipedia