sloboda

See also: Sloboda

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian слобода́ (slobodá), which is related to a common Slavic word for “freedom”, in reference to such settlements' initial freedom from taxes and forced labor duties.

Noun

The German Sloboda in 17th-century Moscow

sloboda (plural slobodas or slobody)

1. A kind of settlement, village, or suburb in the history of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

Translations

a kind of settlement in the history of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine

• Belarusian: слабада́ f (slabadá)
• Estonian: slobodaa
• Finnish: sloboda (fi)
• French: sloboda (fr) f
• German: Sloboda f
• Japanese: スロボダ (suroboda)
• Korean: 슬로보다 (seulloboda)
• Latvian: sloboda f
• Lithuanian: sloboda (lt) f
• Polish: słoboda (pl) f
• Russian: слобода́ (ru) f (slobodá)
• Tatar: бистә (tt) (bistä)
• Ukrainian: слобода́ f (slobodá)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *svoboda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slobǒda/
• Hyphenation: slo‧bo‧da

Noun

slobòda f (Cyrillic spelling слобо̀да)

1. freedom

Declension

Declension of sloboda

	singular	plural
nominative	slobòda	slobode
genitive	slobode	slobódā
dative	slobodi	slobodama
accusative	slobodu	slobode
vocative	slobodo	slobode
locative	slobodi	slobodama
instrumental	slobodom	slobodama

Related terms

• slobodan
• slobodnost

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *svoboda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈslɔbɔda]

Noun

sloboda f

1. freedom

Declension

Declension of sloboda (pattern žena)

	singular	plural
nominative	sloboda	slobody
genitive	slobody	slobôd
dative	slobode	slobodám
accusative	slobodu	slobody
locative	slobode	slobodách
instrumental	slobodou	slobodami

Derived terms

• oslobodiť
• slobodienka
• slobodný

See also

• voľnosť

Further reading

• “sloboda”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025