kulak

Etymology
1877. From, plural. Compare also 🇨🇬,.

Pronunciation




Noun

 * 1)  A prosperous peasant in the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, who owned land and could hire workers.

Usage notes
During Soviet state collectivization of farming in the 1920s and 1930s the label kulak, implying “tight-fisted”, was applied pejoratively to land-owning peasants in general.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: koelak
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: كُولَاك, قُولَاق
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian:, курку́ль
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: kulak
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: კულაკი
 * German: Kulak, Kulakin
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: קולאק
 * Hindi: कूलाक,
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingrian: kulakka
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kalmyk: кулак
 * Kazakh: кулак
 * Korean: 쿨라크,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latvian: budzis, kulaks
 * Lithuanian: buožė, kulakas
 * Macedonian:
 * Marathi: कुलाक
 * Mongolian: кулак
 * Nogai: кулак
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: kulakk
 * Nynorsk: kulakk
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: кулак,
 * Slovak: kulak
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: kulak
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: (富農), cu-lắc

Etymology
.

Noun

 * , a prosperous peasant marked as an enemy of the people by the communist regime, especially in the time of forced collectivization (e. g. in Czechoslovakia 1948–cca 1960)

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)   prosperous peasant in Russia

Noun

 * 1)   prosperous peasant in Russia

Etymology 1
From, , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬. A possible cognate with Finnish kuulla

Noun

 * 1)  ear

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) kulak