kolkhoz

English

Etymology

From Russian колхо́з (kolxóz), contraction of коллекти́вное хозя́йство (kollektívnoje xozjájstvo, “collective farm, household”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəlˈkɒz/, /kɒl-/, /kɔːl-/, /kol-/, /-kɔz/, /-kɒs/, /-kɔs/

Noun

kolkhoz (plural kolkhozes or kolkhozy)

1. A farming collective in the former Soviet Union.
   • 2013, Lucy Renner Jones, translating Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Death in Persia, Seagull Books 2013, p. 21:

     And books were demanded of them, books on Russia, on sailors, on aeroplanes, on scientists, on metro-workers, on kolkhoz labourers, on women and schoolchildren and parachute heroes.

Synonyms

• kolhosp

Related terms

• kolkhoznik

 

Translations

farming collective

• Arabic: كُولْخُوز‎ m (kūlḵūz)
• Armenian: կոլխոզ (hy) (kolxoz), կոլտնտեսություն (hy) (koltntesutʿyun)
• Azerbaijani: kolxoz
• Bashkir: колхоз (kolxoz)
• Belarusian: калга́с m (kalhás)
• Bulgarian: колхо́з m (kolhóz)
• Catalan: kolkhoz m
• Chinese:

  Dungan: колхоз (kolhoz)

  Mandarin: 集體農莊／集体农庄 (jítǐ nóngzhuāng)

• Chuvash: колхоз (kolh̬oz)
• Crimean Tatar: kolhoz
• Czech: kolchoz (cs) m
• Danish: kolkhoz
• Dutch: kolchoz (nl) m
• Esperanto: kolĥozo
• Estonian: kolhoos (et)
• Finnish: kolhoosi (fi)
• French: kolkhoze (fr) m
• Georgian: კოლმეურნეობა (ḳolmeurneoba)
• German: Kolchos (de) m
• Greek: κολχόζ (el) n (kolchóz)
• Hebrew: קוֹלְחוֹז‎ (he) m (kolkhoz)
• Hindi: कोलख़ोज़ (kolxoz)
• Hungarian: kolhoz (hu)
• Irish: calchas
• Italian: kolchoz (it) m
• Japanese: コルホーズ (koruhōzu)
• Kazakh: ұжымшар (ūjymşar)
• Korean: 콜호스 (ko) (kolhoseu), 콜호즈 (kolhojeu)
• Kyrgyz: колхоз (kolhoz)
• Latvian: kolhozs m
• Lithuanian: kolūkis m
• Macedonian: колхоз (kolhoz)
• Norwegian: kolkos m
• Ossetian: колхоз (kolxoz)
• Persian: کلخوز‎ (fa) (kolxôz)
• Polish: kołchoz (pl) m
• Portuguese: kolkhoz (pt) m
• Romanian: colhoz (ro) n
• Russian: колхо́з (ru) m (kolxóz)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: колхоз m

  Roman: kolhoz (sh) m

• Skolt Sami: kolhoss
• Slovak: kolchoz m
• Slovene: kolhoz (sl) m
• Spanish: koljós (es) m
• Swedish: kolchos (sv)
• Tajik: колхоз (kolxoz)
• Tatar: колхоз (qolxoz)
• Turkish: kolhoz (tr)
• Turkmen: kolhoz
• Ukrainian: колго́сп m (kolhósp)
• Uzbek: kolxoz (uz)
• Vietnamese: nông trường tập thể
• Yakut: колхуос (kolquos), холкуос (qolkuos)
• Yiddish: קאָלכאָז‎ m (kolkhoz), קאָלווירט‎ m (kolvirt)

See also

• sovkhoz

Portuguese

Noun

kolkhoz m (plural kolkhozes or kolkhoz)

1. kolkhoz (farming collective in the Soviet Union)