kulak
/ˈkuːlak/US/ˈkulæk/
kulak noun: a prosperous peasant in the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, who owned land and could hire workers.
Noun
kulak (plural kulaks or kulaki)
- A prosperous peasant in the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, who owned land and could hire workers.
- The “internal organs,” as the CHEKA and the GPU and the KGB used to style themselves, were asked to police the mind for heresy as much as to torture kulaks to relinquish the food they withheld from the cities.2002 Sep, Christopher Hitchens, “Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight”, in The Atlantic
- We are the “upper middle class”, the new kulaks whose antisocial self-interest and lack of submission to the aims of the revolutionary vanguard must be extinguished.2015 February 6, Nick Gillespie, “To the Barricades, Brooklyn Yuppies!”, in The Dailey Beast, retrieved 20150206
- Synonyms:
- kurkul
Proper noun capitalized: Kulak
Kulak (plural Kulaks)
- A surname.
kulak meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Arabic
kulak in Hindi
- prosperous peasant
- कूलाक kūlāk, कुलक kulak
kulak in Marathi
- prosperous peasant
- कुलाक kulāk
kulak in Urdu
- وڈیرا, زمین دار
kulak in Arabic
- prosperous peasant
- كُولَاك kūlāk, قُولَاق qūlāq
More languagesFewer languages
- kulak in Persian
- کولاک kulâk
- kulak in Vietnamese
- phú nông, cu-lắc
Synonyms of kulak
Forms of kulak
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | kulaks |
| plural | kulaki |
| alternative form | koulak |
| alternative form | kulack |
| alternative form | Kulak |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Kulaks |
Origin of kulak
1877. From Russian кула́к (kulák, “wealthy peasant; fist; tight-fisted person”), plural кулаки́ (kulakí). Compare also Russian раскула́чивание (raskuláčivanije, “dekulakization”), подкула́чник (podkuláčnik, “subkulak”).
Words formed from kulak
- anarcho-kulak
- dekulakisation
- de-kulakisation
- dekulakization
- de-kulakization
- dekulakise
- de-kulakise
- dekulakize
- de-kulakize
- kulakdom
- kulakisation
- kulakization
- kulakism
- kulakize
- kulakise
- self-dekulakisation
- self-dekulakization
- subkulak
Questions about kulak
- What does kulak mean?
- Kulak means a prosperous peasant in the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, who owned land and could hire workers.
- What is kulak in Hindi?
- Kulak in Hindi is कूलाक (kūlāk), कुलक (kulak). See Kulak meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is kulak?
- Kulak can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce kulak?
- Kulak is pronounced /ˈkuːlak/ (UK).
- What is the plural of kulak?
- The plural of kulak is kulaks.
Words near kulak in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: kulak (page history and authors); Kulak (page history and authors); kulak (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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