ataman
Americannoun
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atamans
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of ataman
1825–35; < Russian atamán, Old Russian vatamanŭ, probably alteration of a Turkic word with the personal suffix -man; identity of initial element disputed
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Tell the Cossacks," said he to the essauls, "that to-morrow the ataman will be as well as a fish, and not to trouble about him.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Oh, you will catch it from the ataman!
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
The other, Anton Tatarchuk, ataman of the Chigirin kuren, was a man about forty years old, tall, with a wild expression of face and oblique Tartar eyes.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
You are the next ataman to me, and since you are willing to go, you will become first ataman yet over the Cossacks, good hero, for you are not afraid of Yeremi.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
The ataman also remained silent, and in the room a fly on the wing could be heard.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
“That means state recognition, it means training for our cadets,” Cherkashin explained to his Cossack commanders, who are known as atamans.
From Time ● Mar. 12, 2014
"The Pole this way! the Pole this way!" shouted the kuren atamans.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
And all at once the majority of the kuren atamans began to laugh wildly, not knowing themselves why.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Colonels were appointed from koshevoi atamans of long standing; single parties were sent out to capture castles, and receive thereby training for battle.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Prom that moment the common council ceased, the rule of atamans and the preponderance of the Brotherhood were at an end.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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