kibbutz

English

Etymology

From Hebrew קִבּוּץ (kibúts), derived from the verb קָבַץ (kaváts, “to gather, collect, assemble”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɪˈbʊts/, /kɪˈbuːts/, /kiː-/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʊts, -uːts

Noun

kibbutz (plural kibbutzim or kibbutzes)

1. A community, usually an agricultural one in Israel, based on a high level of social and economical sharing, equality, direct democracy and tight social relations.
   • 2023 October 12, Yuval Noah Harari, “Israelis and Palestinians are facing their moment of greatest danger since 1948”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 October 2023:

     The kibbutzim along the Gaza border have been socialist communes and some of the most tenacious bastions of the Israeli left. I know people from those kibbutzim who, after years of almost daily rocket attacks from Gaza, still clung to the hope of peace, as if to a religious cult.

Derived terms

• kibbutzer

Related terms

• kibbutznik

Translations

a community

• Afrikaans: kibboets
• Arabic: كِيبُوتْس m (kibuts), مُسْتَوْطَنَة زِرَاعِيَّة (mustawṭana(t) zirāʕiyya)
• Armenian: կիբուց (hy) (kibucʻ)
• Bavarian: Kibbuz m
• Belarusian: кібуц m (kibuc)
• Breton: c'hibboutz m
• Bulgarian: кибуц m (kibuc)
• Catalan: quibuts m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 基布茲 / 基布兹 (zh) (jībùcí)

• Czech: kibuc m
• Dutch: kibboets (nl) m
• Esperanto: kibuco
• Estonian: kibuts
• Finnish: kibbutsi (fi)
• French: kibboutz (fr) m
• Galician: kibbutz (gl) m
• Georgian: კიბუცი (ḳibuci)
• German: Kibbuz (de) m

  Alemannic German: Kibbuz m

• Greek: κιμπούτς (el) n (kimpoúts)
• Hebrew: קיבוץ \ קִבּוּץ (he) m (kibúts)
• Hungarian: kibuc (hu)
• Indonesian: kibbutz
• Italian: kibbutz (it) m
• Japanese: キブツ (kibutsu)
• Korean: 키부츠 (kibucheu)
• Latvian: kibucs m
• Lithuanian: kibucas m
• Luxembourgish: Kibbuz m
• Occitan: kibotz m
• Polish: kibuc (pl) m
• Portuguese: kibutz (pt) m
• Romanian: kibuț n, kibbutz (ro) n
• Russian: кибу́ц (ru) m (kibúc)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кѝбуц m

  Roman: kìbuc (sh) m

• Slovak: kibuc m
• Slovene: kibuc (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kibbuz m

  Upper Sorbian: kibbuz m

• Spanish: kibutz (es) m
• Swahili: kibutsi
• Swedish: kibbutz (sv) c
• Tagalog: kibuts
• Tamil: கிப்புட்ஸ் (kippuṭs)
• Turkish: kibbutz (tr)
• Ukrainian: кібу́ц (uk) m (kibúc)
• Welsh: cibwts m
• Yiddish: קיבוץ m (kibuts)

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Hebrew קִבּוּץ (kibúts), derived from the root קָבַץ (kaváts, “to gather, collect, assemble”).

Noun

kibbutz (plural kibbutz-kibbutz)

1. kibbutz: a community, usually an agricultural one in Israel, based on a high level of social and economical sharing, equality, direct democracy and tight social relations

Further reading

• “kibbutz”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Portuguese

Noun

kibbutz m (plural kibbutzim or (less common) kibbutz)

1. alternative spelling of kibutz

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French kibboutz.

Noun

kibbutz n (plural kibbutzuri)

1. kibbutz

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	kibbutz	kibbutzul		kibbutzuri	kibbutzurile
genitive-dative	kibbutz	kibbutzului		kibbutzuri	kibbutzurilor
vocative	kibbutzule			kibbutzurilor

Spanish

Noun

kibbutz m (plural kibbutz)

1. kibbutz