ataman

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Stepan Timofeitch is coming! 'was shouted noisily all round;' he is coming, our father, our ataman, our bread-giver! '

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  1. noun A Cossack chief. Also called hetman.

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  • Base san mga contingency planning, an magkadurudilain nga mga government agencies nga responsible san pag-ataman san mga internally displaced people (IDPs) in naghihimo na sin pagtirok san mga pagkaon ngan medisina nga kinahanglan ada sa ngatanan nga oras.
  • Stepan Timofeitch is coming! 'was shouted noisily all round;' he is coming, our father, our ataman, our bread-giver! ' —  Dream Tales and Prose Poems
  • In spite of the violent reclamations of the Polish envoy Wizoçki, the offer was at once accepted, and a mace and kaftan of honour sent to the ataman as ensigns of investiture, while the Poles were warned to desist from hostilities against the subjects of the sultan. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
  • Doroszenko, who had gone over to the Russians at the end of 1676, and surrendered to them the important fortress of Czehryn, the capital and key of the Ukraine, and the repulse of the serasker Ibrahim before its walls in the following year, showed the necessity of vigorous measures: and, in 1678, the grand vizir in person appeared at the head of a formidable force in the Ukraine, bringing with him George Khmielniçki, son of the former ataman, who had long been confined as a state prisoner in the Seven Towers, but was now released to counteract, by his hereditary influence with the Cossacks, the adverse agency of —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
 

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  1. Russian, from South Turkic, leader of an armed band : ata, father + -man, augmentative suff.

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  1. Russian atamanŭ = Polish ataman, also hetman: see hetman.
 

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