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Meaning of Kulak | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈkuːlak

Definitions

  1. A prosperous peasant in the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, who owned land and could hire workers.
  2. A surname.

Equivalents

Беларуская кулак курку́ль
Български кулак
Čeština kulak
Deutsch Kulak Kulakin
Ελληνικά κουλάκος
Español kulak
فارسی کولاک
Suomi kulakki
Français koulak
हिन्दी कुलक
Magyar kulák
Հայերեն կուլակ
Italiano culacco
日本語 クラーク 富農
한국어 부농 쿨라크
Kurdî kulak
Кыргызча кулак
Lietuvių buožė kulakas
Latviešu budzis kulaks
Nederlands koelak
Polski kułak
Português kulak
Română chiabur culac
Русский кулак курку́ль
Türkçe kulak
Українська кулак курку́ль
Oʻzbekcha quloq
Tiếng Việt cu-lắc phú nông

Examples

“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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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