obrok

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

• IPA^(key): /əˈbɹoʊk/

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

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

• Borko, Borok, Brook, bokor, brook

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *obrokъ.

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• Rhymes: -ɔbrɔk
• Syllabification: o‧brok

obrok m inan

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

• → Yiddish: אָבראָק (obrok)

• karma, pasza

• 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

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *obrokъ.

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

òbrok m inan (Cyrillic spelling о̀брок)

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

• međuobrok

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

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *obrokъ.

obròk m inan

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