corvee - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)
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From French corvée, from Late Latin conrogāta, derived from Latin conrogāre (“call together by entreaty”).
corvee (countable and uncountable, plural corvees)
- Unpaid labor required by a feudal lord.
- Labor, especially for roads or dams, in lieu of taxes.
unpaid labor required by a feudal lord
- Arabic: سُخْرَة (ar) f (suḵra)
- Armenian: կոռ (hy) (koṙ)
- Aromanian: culuche f
- Azerbaijani: biyar (az)
- Basque: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: па́ншчына f (pánščyna)
- Bulgarian: кулу́к m (kulúk)
- Catalan: jova (ca) f
- Chinese:
Mandarin: 勞役 / 劳役 (zh) (láoyì), 差役 (zh) (chāiyì), 徭役 (zh) (yáoyì) - Czech: robota (cs) f
- Estonian: teoorjus (et)
- Finnish: taksvärkki (fi)
- French: corvée (fr) f
- Galician: angueira f, endeita f
- German: Fron (de) f, Frone (de) f, Frondienst (de) m
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: jobbágyság (hu)
- Indonesian: korve (id), kerja paksa (id), kerja rodi (id), rodi (id)
- Latin: opera (la) f, conrogāta f (Late, Medieval), servitium dēterminātum f (Gallus Anonymus)
- Latvian: klaušas (lv)
- Lithuanian: baudžiava
- Macedonian: кулук m (kuluk), ангарија f (angarija)
- Malay: amalan kerah
- Occitan: corrogada (oc) f, corròc m, corvada (oc) f
- Persian: بیگار (fa) (bigâr), شاکار (fa) (šâkâr), مچرگ (mačarg)
- Polish: pańszczyzna (pl) f
- Portuguese: corvea f
- Russian: ба́рщина (ru) f (bárščina)
- Serbo-Croatian: tlaka (sh) f
Cyrillic: ку̀лук m
Latin: kùluk (sh) m - Spanish: corvea f
- Turkish: kulluk (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: قوللق (kulluk) - Ukrainian: па́нщина f (pánščyna)
- Zazaki: quley c
labor in lieu of taxes
Basque: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: па́ншчына f (pánščyna)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 勞役 / 劳役 (zh) (láoyì), 差役 (zh) (chāiyì), 徭役 (zh) (yáoyì)Finnish: taksvärkki (fi)
Galician: angueira f
Greek: αγγαρεία (el) f (angareía)
Ancient Greek: ἀγγαρεία f (angareía), ἀγγαρία f (angaría)Hungarian: jobbágyság (hu)
Khorezmian Turkic: كوچ (küç)
Lithuanian: baudžiava
Macedonian: ангарија f (angarija)
Polish: pańszczyzna (pl) f, szarwark (pl) m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: а̀нга̄рија f
Latin: àngārija (sh) fSpanish: angaria f
Ukrainian: па́нщина f (pánščyna)
“corvee”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. (etymology)
Borrowed from French corvée, from Middle French corvee, from Old French corvee, from Late Latin conrogāta. Doublet of karwei.
corvee f or n (uncountable, no diminutive)
- → Indonesian: korvé