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  2. Stan (administrative unit) - Wikipedia

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    Etymologically stan was formed from the verb stanovytsya (Russian: станови́ться) meaning to stay or stand. It has not been well-studied. However, Russian historians believe that unlike volost, which is thought to have evolved from tribal communities, stans were purely administrative structures, whose main function was to organize tribute collection, thus, a stan was the actual ...

  3. -stan - Wikipedia

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    stan (Persian: ستان stân, [n 1] estân or istân [n 2]) has the meaning of "a place abounding in" [1] or "a place where anything abounds" as a suffix. [2] It is widely used by Iranian languages as well as the common Turkish languages (excluding Siberian Turkic ) and other languages.

  4. Oxford Russian Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford Russian Dictionary is a RussianEnglish and EnglishRussian bilingual dictionary published by Oxford University Press. It is one of the largest such dictionaries by termbase . The dictionary had several editions over the years, edited by Boris Unbegaun , Paul Falla, Marcus Wheeler, Colin Howlett and Della Thompson. [ 1 ]

  5. List of English words of Russian origin - Wikipedia

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    Dedovshchina (Russian: дедовщи́на) (from Russian ded, "grandfather", Russian army slang equivalent of "gramps", meaning soldiers in their third or fourth half-year of conscription, + suffix -shchina – order, rule, or regime; hence "rule of the grandfathers") A system of hazing in the Soviet and Russian armies.

  6. Should you worry if your teen is a ‘stan’? - AOL

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    What to know about the slang word “stan”: the definition, meaning and usage.

  7. File:Azerbaijani-Russian Dictionary, v. 3 (Q-R) 585.pdf ...

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  8. Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language

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    Although Russian жид is equivalent to Czech: žid, English: jew; while Russian: еврей corresponds to Czech: hebrejci and English: hebrew, the first form (widely used in Russian literature through the 19th century (Lermontov, Gogol et al.)) was later considered an expletive with a tinge of antisemitism. To ensure "political correctness ...

  9. Multitran - Wikipedia

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    Multitran is an editable Russian multilingual online dictionary launched on 1 April 2001. The EnglishRussianEnglish dictionary contains over four million entries, while the total database has about eight million entries. [1]