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kolovrat

kolovrat noun: an eight-spoked swastika used by Slavic neopagan, fascist, and nationalist groups.

Noun

kolovrat (plural kolovrats)

  1. (nationalism) An eight-spoked swastika used by Slavic neopagan, fascist, and nationalist groups.
    • In contrast, Krasnodar respondents were keen to differentiate between the kolovrat and the swastika, while recognizing the symbolic connections between them: […]2009, George McKay, Michael Goddard, Christopher Williams, Neil Foxlee, editors, Subcultures and New Religious Movements in Russia and East-Central Europe, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 284

Proper noun capitalized: Kolovrat

Kolovrat (plural Kolovrats)

  1. A surname from the Slavic languages

Forms of kolovrat

Noun
pluralkolovrats
Proper noun
pluralKolovrats
alternative formKolowrat
alternative formKolourat
alternative formKollovrat
alternative formKollowrat
alternative formKollourat

Origin of kolovrat

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *kolovortъ. In historical records, similar symbols were recorded as ладинец (ladinec) in Russian or słoneczko in Polish. This spelling was influenced by Russian коловра́т (kolovrát), the more well-known form of the symbol invented by the neo-pagan leader Alexey Dobrovolsky in the 1990s.

From Slavic, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *kolovortъ.

Words formed from kolovrat

Questions about kolovrat

What does kolovrat mean?
Kolovrat means an eight-spoked swastika used by Slavic neopagan, fascist, and nationalist groups.
What part of speech is kolovrat?
Kolovrat can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of kolovrat?
The plural of kolovrat is kolovrats.

Words near kolovrat in the dictionary

  1. Kolora
  2. kolos
  3. Koloshan
  4. Kolou
  5. Kolouhanpa
  6. kolovrat
  7. kolovratite
  8. kolovrats
  9. Kolp
  10. Kolpak
  11. Kolpakov

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