Kazakh edit

Alternative scripts
Arabic وبلىس
Cyrillic облыс
Latin oblys
Yañalif oʙlьs
 
Қазақстанның облыстарға бөлiнiсi.
Kazakhstan’s division into regions.

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Russian о́бласть f (óblastʹ, a region, an oblast), from Old Church Slavonic область f (oblastĭ, power, jurisdiction), from Proto-Slavic *obvolstь f.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ob.lʊs/, [wo̞b.ləs]
  • Hyphenation: об‧лыс

Noun edit

облыс (oblys)

  1. a region, an oblast (first-level administrative division of Kazakhstan, Russia, and several other countries)
    Былтыр облысқа 7 мыңға жуық адам көшіп келді.
    Byltyr oblysqa 7 myñğa juyq adam köşıp keldı.
    Last year, approximately 7 thousand people have moved into the oblast.

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