oblast
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Noun — An administrative area found in Russia and some other countries with a Slavic background.
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Etymology
Comes from a Slavic language, probably Russian о́бласть (óblastʹ, “region, province”), which was borrowed from Old Church Slavonic область (oblastĭ), from Proto-Slavic *obolstь, itself from earlier *obvolstь, *obvoldtь — a compound of *o(b)- (“over”) and *volstь (“rule, power, authority”), so probably meaning originall...
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