noun
oblast
Oblast (noun) means an administrative area found in Russia and some other countries with a Slavic background.
noun
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An administrative area found in Russia and some other countries with a Slavic background.
"Almaty oblast (distinct from Almaty city) is the most rural of Kazakhstan's oblasts, at just 22.2 percent urban."
— Martha Brill Olcott, Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise (2010)
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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 originally "a region ruled over". Compare Proto-Slavic *obvoldati (“to rule”).
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What is the meaning of oblast?
"oblast" (noun) means an administrative area found in Russia and some other countries with a Slavic background.
