udarnik
English
Etymology
From Russian уда́рник (udárnik), from уда́р (udár, “strike, blow, shock”) + -ник (-nik).
Noun
udarnik (plural udarniks or udarniki)
- (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 [...]
Translations
shock worker, super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Block — See also translations at Stakhanovite
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Further reading
udarnik on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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)
- (historical) udarnik
- 1976, Grupa »Sunce«, “Himna akcijaša”:
- Šamac-Sarajevo
ponos je i dika:
to je delo ruku
mladih udarnika!- The Šamac-Sarajevo [railway]
is our pride and glory:
that is the work of the hands
of the young udarniks!
- The Šamac-Sarajevo [railway]
- 1976, Grupa »Sunce«, “Himna akcijaša”:
Declension
Declension of udarnik
singular | plural | |
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nominative | ùdārnīk | ùdārnīci |
genitive | udarnika | udarnika |
dative | udarniku | udarnicima |
accusative | udarnika | udarnike |
vocative | ùdārnīče | udarnici |
locative | udarniku | udarnicima |
instrumental | udarnikom | udarnicima |
Related terms
Related terms
- ùdārnica
- ùdārničkī
- ùdārnički
- ùdārnīštvo
References
- “udarnik” in Hrvatski jezični portal