громада

Inherited from Old Slovak hromada, from Proto-Slavic *gromada. Cognates include Carpathian Rusyn грома́да (hromáda) and Slovak hromada.

• IPA^(key): [ɦrɔˈmada]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Hyphenation: гро‧ма‧да

громада (hromada) f (diminutive громадка)

1. pile, heap
2. (sometimes derogatory) crowd, mob, throng, host, horde (multitude of people)

   Synonyms: ґрупа (grupa), маса (masa), множество (množestvo)

   громада дзеци ― hromada dzeci ― a bunch of children

• Medʹeši, H., Fejsa, M., Timko-Djitko, O. (2010) “громада”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Руско-сербски словнїк [Rusyn-Serbian Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy
• Fejsa, M., Šlemender, M., Čelʹovski, S. (2022) “crowd”, in Анґлийско-руски словнїк [English-Rusyn Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy; Ruska matka, →ISBN, page 73
• Fejsa, M., Šlemender, M., Čelʹovski, S. (2022) “heap”, in Анґлийско-руски словнїк [English-Rusyn Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy; Ruska matka, →ISBN, page 135
• Fejsa, M., Šlemender, M., Čelʹovski, S. (2022) “pile”, in Анґлийско-руски словнїк [English-Rusyn Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy; Ruska matka, →ISBN, page 212

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gromada (“heap, pile”).

Sense 2 is a semantic loan from Ukrainian.

• IPA^(key): [ɡrɐˈmadə]

грома́да • (gromáda) f inan (genitive грома́ды, nominative plural грома́ды, genitive plural грома́д)

1. mass, bulk, pile, heap
2. (Ukraine) (territorial) hromada, community of various levels in Ukraine (city, town, region, village, etc.)

   Synonym: общи́на (obščína)

• грома́дина (gromádina)
• грома́дный (gromádnyj)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “громада”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gromada.

грома́да f (Latin spelling gromáda)

1. heap
2. pile
3. mass

• IPA^(key): [ɦrɔˈmadɐ]

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Semantic loan from Polish gromada (“village assembly”).

грома́да • (hromáda) f inan (genitive грома́ди, nominative plural грома́ди, genitive plural грома́д, relational adjective грома́дський)

1. hromada, community; civic society
2. assembly (of citizens, people)
3. hromada, territorial administrative unit in Ukraine

From Old East Slavic [Term?], from Proto-Slavic *gromada.

грома́да • (hromáda) f inan (genitive грома́ди, nominative plural грома́ди, genitive plural грома́д)

1. bulk, mass (something big)

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “громада”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka