volost

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian во́лость (vólostʹ) or Ukrainian во́лость (vólostʹ), Old East Slavic волость (volostĭ).

Noun

volost (plural volosts)

1. (historical) A traditional administrative subdivision in Eastern Europe.

Translations

a traditional administrative subdivision

• Belarusian: во́ласць f (vólascʹ), во́ласьць f (vólasʹcʹ)
• Bulgarian: во́лост f (vólost)
• Chuvash: вулӑс (vulăs)
• Czech: volosť f
• French: volost (fr) m or f
• German: Wolost f
• Kazakh: болыс (bolys)
• Kyrgyz: болуш (ky) (boluş)
• Lithuanian: valsčius m
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: власть f (vlastĭ)

• Old East Slavic: волость f (volostĭ)
• Polish: wołost f, włość (pl) f
• Russian: во́лость (ru) f (vólostʹ)
• Slovene: volost f
• Ukrainian: во́лость (uk) f (vólostʹ)
• Uzbek: volost (uz)
• Yakut: буолас (buolas)