sovkhoz

English

Etymology

From Russian совхо́з (sovxóz), abbreviation of сове́тское хозя́йство (sovétskoje xozjájstvo, “soviet farm”).

Noun

sovkhoz (plural sovkhozes or sovkhozy)

1. A large, state-owned farm in the Soviet Union.

   The average size of a sovkhoz was 15,300 hectares (153 km²), nearly three times the average kolkhoz (5,900 hectares or 59 km² in 1990.)

Translations

soviet state farm

• Armenian: խորհտնտեսություն (hy) (xorhtntesutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: sovhoz
• Belarusian: саўга́с m (saŭhás)
• Bulgarian: совхо́з m (sovhóz)
• Estonian: sovhoos
• Finnish: sovhoosi (fi)
• French: sovkhoze (fr) m
• Georgian: საბჭოთა მეურნეობა (sabč̣ota meurneoba)
• German: Sowchos (de) m
• Greek: σοβχόζ (el) n (sovchóz)
• Hebrew: סובחוז m (sovkhóz)
• Japanese: ソフホーズ (sofuhōzu)
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• Kazakh: совхоз (sovxoz)
• Kyrgyz: совхоз (ky) (sovhoz)
• Persian: سوخوز (sovxōz)
• Polish: sowchoz (pl) m
• Portuguese: sovcoz (pt) m
• Russian: совхо́з (ru) (sovxóz)
• Spanish: sovjós m
• Tajik: совхоз (sovxoz)
• Turkish: sovhoz (tr)
• Turkmen: sowhoz
• Ukrainian: радго́сп m (radhósp)
• Uzbek: sovxoz (uz)

Further reading

• sovkhoz on Wikipedia.Wikipedia