Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kolovrat

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: kolovrat
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An eight-spoked swastika used by Slavic neopagan, fascist, and nationalist groups.

name

A surname from the Slavic languages

Example Sentences

"In contrast, Krasnodar respondents were keen to differentiate between the kolovrat and the swastika, while recognizing the symbolic connections between them: […]"

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *kolovortъ. In historical records, similar symbols were recorded as ладинец (ladinec) in Russian or słoneczko in Polish. This spelling was influenced by Russian коловра́т (kolovrát), the more well-known form of the symbol invented by the neo-pagan leader Alexey Dobrovolsky in the 1990s.

Origin

Source language: Russian

Word Breakdown

Root: *kolovortъ, коловра́т, Kolovrat

Inflected Forms

kolovrats (plural) Kolowrat (alternative) Kolourat (alternative) Kollovrat (alternative) Kollowrat (alternative) Kollourat (alternative)

Derived Forms

kolovratite

Frequently Paired Words

Kolouratoff Kolouratov Kolouratova Kolovratoff Kolovratov Kolovratova Kolowratoff Kolowratov

Questions

What does kolovrat mean?: An eight-spoked swastika used by Slavic neopagan, fascist, and nationalist groups.
Where does kolovrat come from?: It is traced to Russian.

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