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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. Stanislav (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Stanislav or Stanislaus (Latinized form) is a given name of Slavic origin, meaning someone who achieves glory or fame.It is common in the Slavic countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Southeast Europe.

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

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    What’s a “stan?” It means mega-fan and the slang word has both hot and cold vibes. Stan is a combination of the words “stalker” and “fan.”

  6. Stanitsa - Wikipedia

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    The Russian word is the diminutive of the word stan (стан), which means "station" or "police district". It is distantly related to the Sanskrit word sthāna ( स्थान ), which means "station", "locality", or "district".

  7. List of Russian federal subject name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    The Russian Federation constitutionally consists of 85 federal subjects, 46 of which are oblasts ("provinces"), 9 are krais ("territories"), 22 are republics (one of them, Crimea, is claimed by Ukraine and not recognised internationally as a part of Russia), four are autonomous okrugs ("districts"), and three are the cities of federal significance (Sevastopol has the same international status ...

  8. Eastern Slavic naming customs - Wikipedia

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    In Russian, some common suffixes are -ов (-ov), -ев (-yev), meaning "belonging to" or "of the clan of/descendant of", e.g. Petrov = of the clan of/descendant of Petr (Peter), usually used for patronymic surnames—or -ский (-sky), an adjectival form, meaning "associated with" and usually used for toponymic surnames.

  9. Yandex Translate - Wikipedia

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    Yandex Translate (Russian: Яндекс Переводчик, romanized: Yandeks Perevodchik) is a web service provided by Yandex, intended for the translation of web pages into another language. The service uses a self-learning statistical machine translation , [ 3 ] developed by Yandex. [ 4 ]