mujik
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Russian мужи́к (mužík, “peasant”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mujik (plural mujiks or mujiki)
- A Russian (male) peasant. [from 16th c.]
- 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 361:
- Since she had last looked at a newspaper, it appeared that the Russians had become heroes and magnificent fighters. They were no longer a rabble of ill-equipped moujiks fleeing before the Nazi hordes.
- 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:
- [A] few days later [I] had rented for the month of August what looked in the snapshots they sent me like a cross between a mujik's izba and Refuge Z, but it had a tiled bathroom and cost dearer than my Appalachian castle.
Translations[edit]
Russian peasant
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Portuguese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
mujik m or f by sense (plural mujiks)
- mujik (male peasant in Russia)
Spanish[edit]
Noun[edit]
mujik m or f by sense (plural mujiks)
Further reading[edit]
- “mujik”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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