kibbutz

From Hebrew קִבּוּץ (kibúts), derived from the verb קָבַץ (kaváts, “to gather, collect, assemble”).

• IPA^(key): /kɪˈbʊts/, /kɪˈbuːts/

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• Rhymes: -ʊts, -uːts

kibbutz (plural kibbutzim or kibbutzes)

1. A community, usually an agricultural one in Israel, based on a high level of social and economical sharing, equality, direct democracy and tight social relations.
   • 2023 October 12, Yuval Noah Harari, “Israelis and Palestinians are facing their moment of greatest danger since 1948”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 October 2023:

     The kibbutzim along the Gaza border have been socialist communes and some of the most tenacious bastions of the Israeli left. I know people from those kibbutzim who, after years of almost daily rocket attacks from Gaza, still clung to the hope of peace, as if to a religious cult.

Unadapted borrowing from Hebrew קִבּוּץ (kibúts), derived from the root קָבַץ (kaváts, “to gather, collect, assemble”).

kibbutz (plural kibbutz-kibbutz)

1. kibbutz: a community, usually an agricultural one in Israel, based on a high level of social and economical sharing, equality, direct democracy and tight social relations

• “kibbutz” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

kibbutz m (plural kibbutzim or (less common) kibbutz)

1. alternative spelling of kibutz

Borrowed from French kibboutz.

kibbutz n (plural kibbutzuri)

1. kibbutz

kibbutz m (plural kibbutz)

1. kibbutz