samvydav

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samvydav

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1971, from Ukrainian самви́дав (samvýdav, “samizdat”) < сам (sam, “self”) + ви́дання (výdannja, “publication”). Compare samizdat < Russian самизда́т (samizdát).

noun samvydavs

uncountable, usually, in a Ukrainian context Samizdat. Many of these appeals appeared in Ukrains’kyi visnyk, a samvydav Ukrainian publication, and a surprising amount eventually were smuggled out of Ukraine to the West.

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@misc{samvydav_2026,
  title = {samvydav},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/samvydav},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}