oblast

Etymology
From a language, probably, borrowed from , from , from earlier , , a compound of  + , thus originally probably meaning "a region ruled over". Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A region or province in Slavic or Slavic-influenced countries.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: аабласт
 * Afrikaans: oblast
 * Arabic: أُوبْلَاسْت
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: өлкә
 * Basque: oblast
 * Belarusian: во́бласць, во́бласьць
 * Bulgarian:
 * Carpathian Rusyn: о́бласть
 * Catalan: óblast
 * Chechen: латтдоза, область
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: oblast
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: oblasto
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: მხარე, ოლქი, ობლასტი
 * German:
 * Hebrew: אובלסט
 * Hindi: ओब्लास्त
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Indonesian: oblast
 * Ingrian: oblasti
 * Italian: oblast'
 * Japanese: オーブラスチ
 * Javanese: oblast
 * Kazakh: облыс
 * Korean: 오블라스티
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Macedonian: о́бласт
 * Norwegian: oblast
 * Old East Slavic: оболость
 * Ossetian: облӕст
 * Persian: ابلاست
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: óblast
 * Punjabi: ਆਬਲਸਤ
 * Romanian: oblast
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: о̏бла̄ст
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: oblasť
 * Slovene: oblast
 * Spanish: óblast
 * Swedish: oblast
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: welaýat
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yakut: уобалас
 * Yiddish: געגנט, אָבלאַסט

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) area particular geographic region

Etymology
in the 19th century.

Noun

 * 1) district, region
 * 2) area, zone
 * 3) province

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) rule, power
 * 2) authority, government, regime

Etymology
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