вобла

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вобла

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Per Vasmer, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *obьlъ.

The politics sense derives from a 2022 court case in which an anti-war activist was acquitted of discrediting the Army by claiming that her words нет в***е (net v***je) meant нет во́бле (net vóble, “no to vobla”), and not нет войне́ (net vojné, “no to war”).

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во́бла • (vóbla) f anim (genitive во́блы, nominative plural во́блы, genitive plural вобл)

1. vobla, Caspian roach (Rutilus caspicus)
   • 1886, Михаил Салтыков-Щедрин [Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin], Вяленая вобла; English translation from (Please provide a date or year):

     Что быва́ют на све́те ли́шние мы́сли, ли́шняя со́весть, ли́шние чу́вства — об э́том, ещё́ живу́чи на во́ле, во́бла слы́шала.

     Što byvájut na svéte líšnije mýsli, líšnjaja sóvestʹ, líšnije čúvstva — ob étom, ješčó živúči na vóle, vóbla slýšala.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (colloquial, derogatory) an ugly and skinny woman
3. (politics, Internet slang, euphemistic) war, special military operation

• спецопера́ция (specoperácija) (sense 3)

Ukrainian Wikipedia has an article on:

вобла

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Per Vasmer, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *obьlъ.

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во́бла • (vóbla) f inan (genitive во́бли, nominative plural во́бли, genitive plural вобл)

1. vobla, Caspian roach (Rutilus caspicus)

• “вобла”, in Горох – Словозміна (in Ukrainian)