different between soviet vs lada

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ?????? (sovét, “council”), from Old Russian borrowed from Old Church Slavonic ?????? (s?v?t?, “advice”). Compounded from ??- (so-) + ???? (v?t?, “agreement”), from Proto-Slavic *v?t? (“council, talk”). Related words include ?????? (navét), ?????? (izvét), ?????? (otvét), ??????? (privét), ????? (obét), ????? (vé?e), ????????? (otve?át?), ????????? (otvétit?), ????????? (zaveš?át?), and ?????????? (soveš?at?sja). Probably cognate with Polish wita? (“to welcome”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s??.vi.?t/, /?s?.vi.?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?so?.vi.?t/

Noun

soviet (plural soviets)

1. (historical) A workers' council, an institution first formed during the 1905 Russian Revolution and then instituted as the main form of communist government at all levels in the Soviet Union; by extension, a similar organization in early Chinese communism and elsewhere.
   • 2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love, Canongate 2006, page 230:

     Kratochvil, Jedlicka, Safar, Kubes and Vasata, who always took an interest in politics, set up a soviet in the last wagon and uncoupled it from the rest of the train in the night.

   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, page 184:

     Workers' committees were forming embryo soviets, soldiers' and sailors' collectives had whole ships and regiments under their temporary command, landless workers in the countryside were taking over abandoned farms and properties.

Related terms

• Soviet republic
• Supreme Soviet

Translations

Adjective

soviet (comparative more soviet, superlative most soviet)

1. Pertaining to or resembling a soviet (council).
2. Alternative letter-case form of Soviet (pertaining to the Soviet Union)
   • 1935, Louis Fischer, Soviet Journey, page 129

     An engineer who is not very soviet in his convictions is the hero.

   • 1947, Washington Education Association, Washington Education Journal

     Why are separate divisions for teachers and administrators in a state organization any more "soviet" than the same divisions in a city educational [....]

   • 1991, "Whatchamacallit", in Boston Globe, Aug 27, 1991

     The Soviet government is not very soviet anymore or, for that matter, much of a government.

   • 2004, "M&S coach Rose makes his pitch", in Times Online, Nov 14, 2004

     "It felt very soviet, very intimidating", said Steven Sharp, one of Rose’s closest lieutenants.

   • 2005, Zedong Mao, Stuart Reynolds Schram, Nancy Jane Hodes, Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949, page 575

     [...] that has been enlarged most quickly and widely is the very soviet region newly created in northern Sichuan.

   • 2006, Kate Transchel, Under the Influence: Working-Class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural ..., page 136

     One tactic was to become more "soviet" than vanguard workers by enthusiastically participating in the regime's productivity campaigns such as shock work,

   • 2006, SG Inge-Vechtomov, "From the Mutation Theory to the Theory of the Mutation Process", in NATO Security through Science Series B

     Lobashev was of completely proletarian origin. He was a very soviet person.

   • 2007, Comment on Fred Hiatt, "A Soviet Memorial -- and Mind-Set: How far Russia has regressed became shockingly evident last week when Vladimir Putin's Russia unleashed a barrage against neighboring Estonia.", Washington Post, May 7, 2007

     There are 3 kinds of Russian speakers in Estonia: a Those that have taken out Estonian Citizenship, b Those that took out Russian citizenship and are therefore loyal to Russia, c those that have not taken either citizenship and are still very soviet in mindstate.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• sovite

Catalan

Noun

soviet m or f (plural soviets)

1. Soviet

Adjective

soviet (masculine and feminine plural soviets)

1. Soviet

French

Etymology

From Russian ?????? (sovét, “council”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.vj?t/

Noun

soviet m (plural soviets)

1. (Soviet Union) soviet (council)

Italian

Noun

soviet m (invariable)

1. soviet (council)

Derived terms

• soviet supremo

Anagrams

• estivo

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so.vi?et/

Noun

soviet n (plural soviete)

1. soviet (council)

Declension

Spanish

Alternative forms

• sóviet

Noun

soviet m (plural soviets)

1. soviet (an assembly, convocation, or council of workers)

Bikol Central

Noun

ladâ

1. chili pepper

Brunei Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lajaq or *laja. Compare Chinese ?? (làji?o).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.da/

Noun

lada

1. pepper, chilli (UK) or chili (US)
2. chilli sauce (UK), hot sauce (US)

Synonyms

• (pepper): cili

Derived terms

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lada]

Noun

lada

1. inflection of lado:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Hausa

Noun

l?d? m (possessed form l?dan)

1. wages
2. reward

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lada/
• Hyphenation: la?da

Etymology 1

From Malay lada, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lajaq or *laja. Compare Chinese ?? (làji?o).

Noun

lada (first-person possessive ladaku, second-person possessive ladamu, third-person possessive ladanya)

1. Synonym of merica.

Etymology 2

From Minangkabau lado.

1. (rare) Synonym of cabai.

Further reading

• “lada” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Alternative forms

• l?da
• l?don

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (lêdon).

Noun

l?da f (genitive l?dae); first declension

1. A shrub in Cyprus from which a resin was obtained

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• lada in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lada in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• lada in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lajaq or *laja. Compare Chinese ?? (làji?o).

Noun

lada (Jawi spelling ?????, plural lada-lada, informal 1st possessive ladaku, impolite 2nd possessive ladamu, 3rd possessive ladanya)

1. pepper, chilli

See also

• cabai
• cili

Further reading

• “lada” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• ladet
• ladde (simple past)
• ladd (past participle)

Verb

lada

1. inflection of lade:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la.da/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *l?da.

Particle

lada

1. any, any old

   Synonyms: byle, b?d?, popadnie, -kolwiek

2. paltry

Preposition

lada

1. used together with the name of a time unit, indicating that something is going to happen in the near future [+nominative]

Etymology 2

From German Lade, from Middle High German lade, from Old High German *lada.

Noun

lada f

1. counter (table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a shop tabletop)

Declension

Further reading

• lada in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• lada in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse hlaða f.

Pronunciation

Noun

lada c

1. barn; a building used for storage or keeping cattle

Related terms

• ladugård
• ladusvala
• Ladulås

Anagrams

• adla, dala

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse hlaða, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþan?.

Verb

lada (preterite lada or låor, supine lada)

1. (transitive) to shelter something from rain or rot

Related terms

• lödu f
• lädi
• ladd m