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See also: Oblast, óblast, and oblasť

English

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A map of Blagoevgrad oblast (province), Bulgaria

Etymology

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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

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɒblæst/, /ˈɒblɑːst/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

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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

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Translations

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See also

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Anagrams

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Czech

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *obolstь.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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oblast f

  1. area (particular geographic region)

Declension

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Further reading

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  • 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)

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Czech oblast in the 19th century.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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ȍblāst f (Cyrillic spelling о̏бла̄ст)

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

Declension

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Slovene

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Etymology

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From Proto-Slavic *obolstь.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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oblȃst f

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

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
 
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

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

Uzbek

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Russian о́бласть (óblastʹ).

Noun

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oblast (plural oblastlar)

  1. oblast, province

Declension

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