обоз

Borrowed from Russian обо́з (obóz), from Proto-Slavic *obozъ. Cognate with Czech oboz and Polish obóz.

• IPA^(key): [oˈbɔs]
• Rhymes: -ɔs
• Syllabification^(key): о‧боз
• Hyphenation^(key): обоз

обо́з • (obóz) m

1. (military) baggage train, wagon train

• “обоз”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “обоз”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *obozъ. By surface analysis, об- (ob-) +‎ воз (voz). Compare cognate Polish obóz (“camp”).

• IPA^(key): [ɐˈbos]

обо́з • (obóz) m inan (genitive обо́за, nominative plural обо́зы, genitive plural обо́зов, relational adjective обо́зный)

1. string of carts, wagon train, string of sledges
   • 1836, Александр Пушкин, “Глава II. Вожатый”, in Капитанская дочка, London: Henry S. King & Co.; English translation from Ekaterina Telfer, transl., The Captain's Daughter, 1875:

     Я слыхал о тамошних метелях и знал, что целые обозы бывали ими занесены.

     Ja slyxal o tamošnix meteljax i znal, što celyje obozy byvali imi zaneseny.

     I had heard of the snow storms in those regions, and was aware that entire trains of waggons were sometimes overwhelmed by them.

2. (military) transport, train

   быть/плести́сь в обо́зе

   bytʹ/plestísʹ v obóze

   bring up the rear; be left behind

• обо́зник m anim (obóznik)

• везти́ impf (veztí)
• воз m (voz)

• → Ingrian: oboza
• → Yakut: обуос (obuos, “wagon train, caravan”)
• → Yiddish: אָבאָז (oboz)

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

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “обоз”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.