kolkhoz

kolkhoz

English

Etymology

From Russian колхо́з (kolxóz), contraction of коллекти́вное хозя́йство (kollektívnoje xozjájstvo, “collective farm, household”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəlˈkɒz/, /kɒl-/, /kɔːl-/, /kol-/, /-kɔz/, /-kɒs/, /-kɔs/

Noun

kolkhoz (plural kolkhozes or kolkhozy)

1. A farming collective in the former Soviet Union.
   • 2013, Lucy Renner Jones, translating Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Death in Persia, Seagull Books 2013, p. 21:

     And books were demanded of them, books on Russia, on sailors, on aeroplanes, on scientists, on metro-workers, on kolkhoz labourers, on women and schoolchildren and parachute heroes.

Synonyms

• kolhosp

Related terms

• kolkhoznik

 

Translations

farming collective

Arabic: كُولْخُوز‎ m (kūlḵūz) Armenian: կոլխոզ (hy) (kolxoz), կոլտնտեսություն (hy) (koltntesutʿyun) Azerbaijani: kolxoz Bashkir: колхоз (kolxoz) Belarusian: калга́с m (kalhás) Bulgarian: колхо́з m (kolhóz) Catalan: kolkhoz m Chinese: Dungan: колхоз (kolhoz) Mandarin: 集體農莊／集体农庄 (jítǐ nóngzhuāng) Chuvash: колхоз (kolh̬oz) Crimean Tatar: kolhoz Czech: kolchoz (cs) m Danish: kolkhoz Dutch: kolchoz (nl) m Esperanto: kolĥozo Estonian: kolhoos (et) Finnish: kolhoosi (fi) French: kolkhoze (fr) m Georgian: კოლმეურნეობა (ḳolmeurneoba) German: Kolchos (de) m Greek: κολχόζ (el) n (kolchóz) Hebrew: קוֹלְחוֹז‎ (he) m (kolkhoz) Hindi: कोलख़ोज़ (kolxoz) Hungarian: kolhoz (hu) Irish: calchas Italian: kolchoz (it) m Japanese: コルホーズ (koruhōzu) Kazakh: ұжымшар (ūjymşar) Korean: 콜호스 (ko) (kolhoseu), 콜호즈 (kolhojeu) Kyrgyz: колхоз (kolhoz) Latvian: kolhozs m Lithuanian: kolūkis m Macedonian: колхоз (kolhoz) Norwegian: kolkos m Ossetian: колхоз (kolxoz) Persian: کلخوز‎ (fa) (kolxōz) Polish: kołchoz (pl) m Portuguese: kolkhoz (pt) m Romanian: colhoz (ro) n Russian: колхо́з (ru) m (kolxóz) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: колхоз m Roman: kolhoz (sh) m Skolt Sami: kolhoss Slovak: kolchoz m Slovene: kolhoz (sl) m Spanish: koljós (es) m Swedish: kolchos (sv) Tajik: колхоз (kolxoz) Tatar: колхоз (qolxoz) Turkish: kolhoz (tr) Turkmen: kolhoz Ukrainian: колго́сп m (kolhósp) Uzbek: kolxoz (uz) Vietnamese: nông trường tập thể Yakut: колхуос (kolxuos), холкуос (xolkuos) Yiddish: קאָלכאָז‎ m (kolkhoz), קאָלווירט‎ m (kolvirt)

See also

• sovkhoz

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Portuguese

Noun

kolkhoz m (plural kolkhozes or kolkhoz)

1. kolkhoz (farming collective in the Soviet Union)