oblast
English
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Etymology
[edit]From a Slavic language, probably Russian о́бласть (óblastʹ, “region, province”), borrowed from Old Church Slavonic область (oblastĭ), from Proto-Slavic *obolstь, from earlier *obvolstь, *obvoldtь, a compound of *o(b)- (“over”) + *volstь (“rule, power, authority”), thus originally probably meaning "a region ruled over". Compare Proto-Slavic *obvoldati (“to rule”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈɒblæst/, /ˈɒblɑːst/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]oblast (plural oblasts or oblasti)
- A region or province in Slavic or Slavic-influenced countries.
- 1979, Jerry Fincher Hough, How the Soviet Union Is Governed, page 483:
- The territorial subdivision below the level of the union republic — or at least below the level of the larger union republics — is that of the oblast, the krai, or the autonomous republic. In 1977 there were 120 oblasts, 6 krais, and 20 autonomous republics, and they corresponded roughly to the American state in size.
- 2002, Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Local Heroes: The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance, page 119:
- It is important to note, however, that the general pattern of Nizhnii Novgorod oblast at the top and Tiumen' and Yaroslavl' oblasts in the middle, with Saratov at the bottom, occurred too often across all indicators to assume that even those differences in means that were not significant at a .05 confidence level or better occurred merely by chance.
- 2010, Martha Brill Olcott, Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise, page 194:
- Almaty oblast (distinct from Almaty city) is the most rural of Kazakhstan's oblasts, at just 22.2 percent urban.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]region or province
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See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Czech
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *obolstь.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]oblast f
- area (particular geographic region)
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “oblast”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “oblast”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “oblast”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Czech oblast in the 19th century.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ȍblāst f (Cyrillic spelling о̏бла̄ст)
Declension
[edit]Declension of oblast
Slovene
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Slavic *obolstь.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]oblȃst f
Inflection
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The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks. |
| Feminine, i-stem, long mixed accent | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nom. sing. | oblást | ||
| gen. sing. | oblastí | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
oblást | oblastí | oblastí |
| genitive (rodȋlnik) |
oblastí | oblastí | oblastí |
| dative (dajȃlnik) |
oblásti | oblastéma | oblastém |
| accusative (tožȋlnik) |
oblást | oblastí | oblastí |
| locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
oblásti | oblastéh | oblastéh |
| instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
oblastjó | oblastéma | oblastmí |
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The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks. |
| Feminine, i-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nom. sing. | oblást | ||
| gen. sing. | oblásti | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
oblást | oblásti | oblásti |
| genitive (rodȋlnik) |
oblásti | oblásti | oblásti |
| dative (dajȃlnik) |
oblásti | oblástma | oblástim |
| accusative (tožȋlnik) |
oblást | oblásti | oblásti |
| locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
oblásti | oblástih | oblástih |
| instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
oblástjo | oblástma | oblástmi |
Further reading
[edit]- “oblast”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025
Uzbek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Russian о́бласть (óblastʹ).
Noun
[edit]oblast (plural oblastlar)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | oblast | oblastlar |
| genitive | oblastning | oblastlarning |
| dative | oblastga | oblastlarga |
| definite accusative | oblastni | oblastlarni |
| locative | oblastda | oblastlarda |
| ablative | oblastdan | oblastlardan |
| similative | oblastdek | oblastlardek |
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