different between obeast vs oblast

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Blend of obese +? beast

Noun

obeast (plural obeasts)

1. (slang, derogatory) A very obese or overweight person.
   • 1981, New York Magazine, Jan 12, 1981, page 107

     The doctor told me I was a little obeast.

   • 2006, Norman Green, Shooting Dr. Jack, page 235

     “There's gotta be a ladder up there, and I can't hoist you, you's obeast.”

   • 2009, Harry F. Dahms, Nature, Knowledge and Negation, page 323

     Fast Food Nation, where, as I overheard one new mother in my town recently note, children are likely to grow up ''obeast'

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:fat person

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

obeast (plural obeasts)

1. (religion) A intelligent demonic influence or entity.
   • 2006, Oneal McQuick, Fasting & Prayers, page 23

     I mentioned something of intelligent nature created by devils called an obeast or called that by the blues; in the article, “Real Weapons of Mass Destruction.”

   • 2007, Orlando Constantine, Angels, Let's Talk, page 39

     For an obeast in a human, the human being dead, have the abilities that Christ displayed upon resurrection.

   • 2008, Orlando Constantine, Angels, Let's Talk 2008-2009 Follow Up Notes

     if they or the obeast or any is successful in yanking a brain or head part, nerve, blood vessel, etc, then as the scripture has said, “without thy mind would I do nothing” (Philemon 1:14)

Anagrams

• Beatos, boates

English

Etymology

From a Slavic language, probably Russian ???????? (óblast?, “region, province”), borrowed from Old Church Slavonic ??????? (oblast?), from Proto-Slavic *obolst?, from earlier *obvolst?, *obvoldt?, a compound of *o(b)- (“over”) + *volst? (“rule, power, authority”), thus originally probably meaning "a region ruled over". Compare Proto-Slavic *obvoldati (“to rule”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??bl?st/

Noun

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

• autonomous oblast

Translations

See also

• krai

Anagrams

• balots, blasto, blasto-, bloats, bostal

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *obolst?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?oblast/

Noun

oblast f

1. area (particular geographic region)

Declension

Derived terms

• oblastní

Further reading

• oblast in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• oblast in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Czech oblast in the 19th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ôbla?st/
• Hyphenation: o?blast

Noun

?bl?st f (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

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

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *obolst?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?blá?st/

Noun

obl?st f

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

Inflection

Uzbek

Etymology

From Russian ???????? (óblast?).

Noun

oblast (plural oblastlar)

1. oblast, province

Declension