different between oblast vs kurgan

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

English

Etymology

From Russian ??????? (kurgán), from a Turkic language (compare Turkish kurgan (“fortress”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??????n/

Noun

kurgan (plural kurgans)

1. A prehistoric burial mound once used by peoples in Siberia and Central Asia.
   • 2004, Benjamin Fortson, Indo-European Language and Culture, Blackwell, 2005, p. 41

     The kurgans and the burials they contain are consistent with the early IE burial practices outlined above, and the late Lithuanian archaeologist Marija Gimbutas proposed that the kurgan peoples were in fact early Indo-Europeans.

   • 2009, Philip L. Kohl, Chapter 6: The Maikop Singularity: The Unequal Accumulation of Wealth on the Bronze Age Eurasian Steppe?, Bryan K. Hanks, Katheryn M. Linduff (editors), Social Complexity in Prehistoric Eurasia: Monuments, Metals and Mobility, page 91,

     In 1897 N. I. Veselovskii excavated the very large, nearly 11 meter high Oshad kurgan or barrow in the town of Maikop in the Kuban region near the foothills of the northwestern Caucasus (the present-day capital of the Adygei Republic). […] This discovery stimulated the excavation of other large kurgans located in the same general region, some of which seemed royal-like in their dimensions and, when not robbed in antiquity, in their materials.

   • 2010, David W. Anthony, The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World, page 329,

     Even in the middle Volga region some kurgans have central graves containing adult females, as at Krasnosamarskoe IV. […] The appearance of adult females in one out of five kurgan graves, including central graves, suggests that gender was not the only factor that determined who was buried under a kurgan.

Synonyms

• (burial mound): barrow, tumulus

Translations

See also

• Kurgan (?????? – Kurgán, a city in Russia)

Portuguese

Noun

kurgan m (plural kurgans)

1. (archaeology) kurgan (prehistoric burial mound in Central Asia)

Turkish

Etymology

There are two principal sources of the word Kurgan:

1. the Old Turkic korgan ("refuge, fortress") and Middle Turkic kur?an ("fortress, rampart, major shrine"). Both are considered as a sound shifting of Old Turkic kor??an, from the word stem kor?- ("to protect, defend") with an Old Turkic Suffix -gan forming proper names.
2. the Old Turkic word stem qur-, of which kurgan is a derivation, is rooted in the reconstructed Proto-Turkic *Kur- ("to erect (a building), to establish"). This word "kurgan" is sometimes hard to distinguish from Proto-Turkic form *K?r?-kan ("fence, protection").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku????n/

Noun

kurgan (definite accusative kurgan?, plural kurganlar)

1. castle, fortress
2. mound, tell

References