oblast

English

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oblast

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Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒblæst/, /ˈɒblɑːst/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

oblast (plural oblasts or oblasti)

1. 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

• autonomous oblast

Translations

See also

• krai

Anagrams

• balots, blasto, blasto-, bloats, bostal

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

oblast

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Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *obolstь.

Pronunciation

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• Audio

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Noun

oblast f

1. area (particular geographic region)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• oblast in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• oblast in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• oblast in Internetová jazyková příručka

Serbo-Croatian

Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has an article on:

oblast

Wikipedia ^sh

Etymology

Borrowed from Czech oblast in the 19th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ôblaːst/
• Hyphenation: o‧blast

Noun

ȍblāst f (Cyrillic spelling о̏бла̄ст)

1. district, region
2. area, zone
3. province

Declension

Slovene

Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:

oblast

Wikipedia ^sl

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *obolstь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔbláːst/

Noun

oblȃst f

1. rule, power
2. authority, government, regime

Inflection

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Further reading

• “oblast”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Uzbek

Etymology

From Russian о́бласть (óblastʹ).

Noun

oblast (plural oblastlar)

1. oblast, province

Declension