udarnik

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English

Etymology

From Russian уда́рник (udárnik), from уда́р (udár, “strike, blow, shock”) + -ник (-nik).

Noun

udarnik (plural udarniks or udarniki)

  1. (historical) A shock worker; a super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc.
    Synonym: Stakhanovite
    • 1934, VOKS Bulletin, Issues 7-8‎, Digitized edition, published 2006, page 80:
      Two short stories … give a true, warm and unvarnished picture of the formation of the character and consciousness of a young Komsomol worker in the heat of socialist competition and udarnik work.
    • 1968, Peter John Georgeoff, The Social Education of Bulgarian Youth‎, Univ. of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 89:
      The account that follows appears in the alphabet book and first reader: Udarnik / Stefka Filipova is a weaver … She weaves faster and better than anyone else. For this reason she is a udarnik.
    • 1991, Eugene Lyons, Assignment in Utopia‎, page 208:
      The brigadiers, or udarniki, worked harder, wasted less time and set an example for their more indolent or less ... Udarniki became a class apart on any job, compensated for their brigadiering by extra rations, priority in the distribution of deficit goods [...]

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Russian уда́рник (udárnik). Compare ùdariti and ȕdār.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ǔdaːrniːk/
  • Hyphenation: u‧dar‧nik

Noun

ùdārnīk m (Cyrillic spelling у̀да̄рнӣк)

  1. (historical) udarnik
    • 1976, Grupa »Sunce«, Himna akcijaša:
      Šamac-Sarajevo
      ponos je i dika:
      to je delo ruku
      mladih udarnika!
      The Šamac-Sarajevo
      is our pride and glory:
      that is the work of the hands
      of the young udarniks!

Declension

Declension of udarnik
singular plural
nominative ùdārnīk ùdārnīci
genitive udarnika udarnika
dative udarniku udarnicima
accusative udarnika udarnike
vocative ùdārnīče udarnici
locative udarniku udarnicima
instrumental udarnikom udarnicima
Related terms

References

  • “udarnik”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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