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muzhyk

muzhyk is the alternative form of mujik.

Meaning of mujik

Noun

mujik (plural mujiks or mujiki)

  1. A Russian (male) peasant.
    • 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.1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 361

Forms of muzhyk

pluralmuzhyks
pluralmuzhyky
pluralmuzhyki

Origin of muzhyk

From Ukrainian мужик (mužyk) and Belarusian мужык (mužyk).

Questions about muzhyk

What is muzhyk the alternative form of?
Muzhyk is the alternative form of mujik.

Words near muzhyk in the dictionary

  1. muzhik
  2. muzhiki
  3. muzhiks
  4. Muzhubee
  5. Muzhubees
  6. muzhyk
  7. muzhyki
  8. muzhyks
  9. muzhyky
  10. Muzio
  11. Muzios

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Adapted from Wiktionary: muzhyk (page history and authors); mujik (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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