Definitions For Kulak

Noun

KULAK (plural s or kulaki) (historical) 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.

Synonyms

kurkul

Hypernyms

{{ws, employer}} petit bourgeois

Related terms

kulakism kulakize, kulakise kulakisation, kulakization dekulakise, de-kulakise, dekulakize, de-kulakize dekulakisation, de-kulakisation, dekulakization, de-kulakization self-dekulakisation, self-dekulakization subkulak

Translations

Afrikaans: koelak Arabic: كُولَاك, m, قُولَاق, m Armenian: կուլակ Azerbaijani: kulak Belarusian: кула́к, m, курку́ль, m Bulgarian: кула́к, m Chinese: : Mandarin: 富農, sc=Hani, 富农, tr=fùnóng, sc=Hani Czech: kulak, m Danish: kulak, c Dutch: koelak, m Estonian: kulak Finnish: kulakki French: koulak, m Georgian: კულაკი German: Kulak, m, Kulakin, f Greek: κουλάκος, m Hebrew: קולאק (kulak) Hindi: कूलाक, कुलक, m Hungarian: kulák Japanese: クラーク (kurāku), 富農, tr=ふのう, funō Kalmyk: кулак, sc=Cyrl Kazakh: кулак, sc=Cyrl Korean: 쿨라크, 부농 (富農, sc=Hani) Kyrgyz: кулак, sc=Cyrl Latvian: budzis, kulaks, m Lithuanian: buožė, kulakas, m Macedonian: кула́к, m Mongolian: кулак, sc=Cyrl Nogai: кулак Norwegian: : Bokmål: kulakk, m : Nynorsk: kulakk, m Persian: کولاک, tr=kulâk Polish: kułak, m Portuguese: kulak, m Romanian: culac, m Russian: кула́к, m, курку́ль, m Serbo-Croatian: кулак, m, sc=Cyrl, kulak, m Slovak: kulak, m Slovene: kulak, m Spanish: kulak, m Swedish: kulak Tajik: кулак, sc=Cyrl Turkmen: kulak Ukrainian: курку́ль, m {{q, term used during collectivisation, offensive}}, кула́к, m {{q, original term}} Uzbek: kulak, quloq Vietnamese: phú nông (富農, sc=Hani), cu-lắc

Alternative forms

koulak Kulak

Etymology

1877. From {{bor, en, ru, кула́к, , wealthy peasant; fist; tight-fisted person}}, plural кулаки́. Compare also {{cog, ru, раскула́чивание, , dekulakization}}, подкула́чник, , subkulak.

Quotations

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Anagrams

Kukla, Kulka {{c, en, People, Agriculture, Soviet Union}}