obrok

English

Etymology

From Russian обро́к (obrók, “rent, tribute”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈbɹoʊk/

Noun

obrok (plural obroks)

1. A rent.
2. In Russia, a poll tax paid by peasants absent from their lord's estate.
   • 1832, Remarks on the Conduct and Probable Designs of Russia:

     Those who have been taught a trade of any sort pay him a higher obrok than a mere cultivator, and he receives a passport to go and reside where he pleases

References

• “obrok”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Borko, Borok, Brook, bokor, brook

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *obrokъ.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.brɔk/

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Western Greater Poland) IPA^(key): [ˈɔ.brɔk]
  • (Central Greater Poland) IPA^(key): [ˈɔ.brɔk]

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• Rhymes: -ɔbrɔk
• Syllabification: o‧brok

Noun

obrok m inan

1. fodder for horses
2. (Central Greater Poland, Western Greater Poland) food (that which is given to eat to people)

Declension

Declension of obrok

	singular	plural
nominative	obrok	obroki
genitive	obroku	obroków
dative	obrokowi	obrokom
accusative	obrok	obroki
instrumental	obrokiem	obrokami
locative	obroku	obrokach
vocative	obroku	obroki

Descendants

• → Yiddish: אָבראָק (obrok)

See also

• karma, pasza

Further reading

• obrok in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• obrok in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Oskar Kolberg (1877), “obrok”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 21
• Oskar Kolberg (1877), “obrok”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 27

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *obrokъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǒbrok/
• Hyphenation: o‧brok

Noun

òbrok m inan (Cyrillic spelling о̀брок)

1. meal
2. portion
3. ration (military)

Declension

Declension of obrok

	singular	plural
nominative	òbrok	obroci
genitive	ȍbrōkā	obroka
dative	obroku	obrocima
accusative	obrok	obroke
vocative	obroče	obroci
locative	obroku	obrocima
instrumental	obrokom	obrocima

Related terms

• međuobrok

Further reading

• “obrok”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Slovene

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *obrokъ.

Noun

obròk m inan

1. instalment (portion of a debt paid back)
2. (archaic) deadline