mujik

English

Alternative forms

• muzhik
• moujik

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Russian мужи́к (mužík, “peasant”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuː(d)ʒɪk/, /muːˈʒiːk/

Noun

mujik (plural mujiks or mujiki)

1. A (male) peasant, especially in pre-revolutionary (imperial) Russia. [from 16th c.]
   • 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial 1995, p. 361:

     Since she had last looked at a newspaper, it appeared that the Russians had become heroes and magnificent fighters. They were no longer a rabble of ill-equipped moujiks fleeing before the Nazi hordes.

   • 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:

     [A] few days later [I] had rented for the month of August what looked in the snapshots they sent me like a cross between a mujik's izba and Refuge Z, but it had a tiled bathroom and cost dearer than my Appalachian castle.

Translations

Russian peasant

• Belarusian: селя́нін m (sjeljánin), мужы́к m (mužýk)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 農民／农民 (zh) (nóngmín), 农民 (zh) (nóngmín)

• Czech: mužik (cs) m
• Finnish: musikka (fi)
• French: moujik (fr) m
• German: Muschik (de) m, Mushik m
• Greek: μουζίκος (el) m (mouzíkos)
• Hungarian: muzsik (hu)
• Italian: mužik m
• Japanese: ムジク (mujiku), 農民 (ja) (のうみん, nōmin)
• Kazakh: мұжық (mūjyq)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 무지크 (mujikeu), 농민 (ko) (nongmin)
• Persian: موژیک (mužik)
• Polish: mużyk (pl) m
• Portuguese: mujik m or f, mujique m or f
• Russian: крестья́нин (ru) m (krestʹjánin), мужи́к (ru) (mužík) (has various meanings)
• Slovak: mužik m
• Spanish: mujik m
• Swedish: muzjik (sv)
• Turkish: Rus köylüsü, mujik (tr)
• Ukrainian: селя́нин (uk) m (seljányn), мужи́к m (mužýk)
• Uzbek: mujik (uz), dehqon (uz)
• Vietnamese: mu-gích

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• mujique

Noun

mujik m or f (plural s)

1. mujik (peasant in imperial Russia)