English
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian большеви́к ( bolʹševík ) , from большинство́ ( bolʹšinstvó , “ majority ” ) .
Pronunciation
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Noun
Bolshevik (plural Bolsheviks or Bolsheviki )
A Russian communist revolutionary, member of the Bolshevik Party in the 1917 Communist Revolution of Russia.
A term used to describe the Communist Party that ruled the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics .
Translations
a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917
Albanian: bolshevik (sq) m
Arabic: بُلْشِفِيك m ( bulšifīk ) , بُلْشِفِيّ m ( bulšifiyy )
Armenian: բոլշևիկ ( bolšewik )
Azerbaijani: bolşevik
Belarusian: бальшаві́к m ( balʹšavík )
Bulgarian: болшеви́к (bg) ? ( bolševík )
Catalan: bolxevic m or f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 布爾什維克 / 布尔什维克 (zh) ( bù'ěrshíwéikè ) , 布尔什维克 (zh) ( bù'ěrshíwéikè )
Czech: bolševik (cs) m
Danish: bolsjevik c
Dutch: bolsjewiek (nl) m
Esperanto: bolŝeviko
Estonian: enamlane , bolševik
Finnish: bolševikki (fi)
French: bolchevik (fr) m , bolchévique (fr) m , bolchevique (fr) m
Galician: bolxevique m
Georgian: ბოლშევიკი ( bolševiḳi )
German: Bolschewik (de) m , Bolschewikin f , Bolschewist m , Bolschewistin f
Greek: μπολσεβίκος (el) m ( bolsevíkos )
Greenlandic: bolschevikki
Hindi: बोलशेविक m ( bolśevik )
Hungarian: bolsevik (hu)
Icelandic: bolsévik m
Irish: Boilséiveach m
Italian: bolscevico (it) m
Japanese: ボリシェヴィキ ( borisheviki )
Kazakh: большевик ( bolşevik )
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Korean: 볼셰비키 ( bolsyebiki )
Kyrgyz: большевик (ky) ( bolşevik )
Latvian: boļševiks m
Lithuanian: bolševikas m
Macedonian: болшевик m ( bolševik )
Mongolian: большевик (mn) ( bolʹševik )
Norwegian: bolsjevik m
Persian: بلشویک (fa) ( bolševik )
Polish: bolszewik (pl) m
Portuguese: bolchevique (pt) m
Romanian: bolșevic (ro) m
Russian: большеви́к (ru) m ( bolʹševík ) , большеви́чка (ru) f ( bolʹševíčka )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бољшѐвӣк m
Roman: boljšèvīk (sh) m
Slovak: boľševik m
Slovene: boljševik (sl) m
Spanish: bolchevique (es) m
Swedish: bolsjevik (sv) c
Tajik: болшевик ( bolševik )
Thai: บอลเชวิค ( bɔɔn-chee-wík )
Turkish: Bolşevik (tr)
Turkmen: bolşewik (tk)
Ukrainian: більшови́к m ( bilʹšovýk )
Urdu: بالشویک m ( bālśevik )
Uzbek: bolshevik (uz)
Vietnamese: người Bôn sê vích , bôn
Yiddish: באָלשעוויק m ( bolshevik ) , באָלשעוויסט m ( bolshevist )
See also