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kibbutznik en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew קִיבּוּצְנִיק (kibútsnik), from קִיבּוּץ (kibútz, “kibbutz”) + ־נִיק (nik, “-er”). By surface analysis, kibbutz + -nik.

Meanings

1. A member of a kibbutz.
   • The kibbutzniki of Gesher yearn for the old days, before 1967, when they exchanged pleasantries with the Arab farmers across the river. “We could talk to them then,” Mrs. [Edna] Solodar said thoughtfully. 1972, Georgie Anne Geyer, “The Occupied Territories”, in The New 100 Years War: The Arab-Israeli Conflict […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 273:
   • But he [Saul Bellow] also foresees with horror that the Arab States will get rapidly more powerful, that even if the next ‘round’ is once again ‘won’ by Israel, the one after that, or the one after that, will be the fatal last round which will lead to the annihilation of that fine and lovable country; of all those civilised and charming intellectuals; those hard-working kibbutzniki; […] 1976 November 21, Philip Toynbee, “Ill at ease in Zion”, in The Observer, number 9,668, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, Review section, page 30, column 8:
   • Which tasks will Israeli society set for the young kibbutzniki? Exhaustion after heavy physical efforts, growing “pragmatism”, de-ideologization of the entire society, the deep crisis of classical socialism – both reformist and revolutionary, disappointment with the Soviet Union and other factors may cause an ideological vacuum, a lack of ideals and utopias. 1980, Theodor Bergmann, “The kibbutz in the continuum of forms of cooperation”, in Klaus Bartölke, Theodor Bergmann, Ludwig Liegle, editors, Integrated Cooperatives in the Industrial Society: The Example of the Kibbutz (Publications of the European Society for Rural Sociology; 2), Assen, Drenthe: Van Gorcum, →ISBN, page 35:
   • When a banker and a developer arrive to find that the commune has not been evacuated, the spirit of resistance is awakened in the old kibbutzniks. 2009 January 16, Susan Walker, “When the kibbutz goes kaput”, in Toronto Star:
   • They have found it necessary to employ outside labour—a fundamental departure from the ideology of the movement, for which my host’s kibbutz was regularly berated by the central organisation by which it was affiliated. […] There is a movement the other way, too—some of the young kibbutzniki go into town to work each day. 1969 September 14, Michael Frayn, “Little Israel”, in The Observer, number 9,296, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, Review section, page 25, column 5:

Forms

Synonyms

kibbutzer

Translations (13)

sh кѝбуцнӣк (member of a kibbutz) · he קִיבּוּצְנִיק (member of a kibbutz) · he קִיבּוּצְנִיקִית (member of a kibbutz) · ru кибу́цник (member of a kibbutz) · sh kìbucnica (member of a kibbutz) · pl kibucnik (member of a kibbutz) · pl kibucniczka (member of a kibbutz) · sh kìbucnīk (member of a kibbutz) · fr kibboutznik (member of a kibbutz) · sh кѝбуцница (member of a kibbutz) · de Kibbuznikin (member of a kibbutz) · de Kibbuznik (member of a kibbutz) · ru кибу́цница (member of a kibbutz)