Standard Lemma guide

kibbutz

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /kɪˈbʊts/
  • /kɪˈbuːts/
  • /kiː-/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ʊts
  • rhymes with -uːts
  • CMU ARPABET: K IH0 B UH1 T S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a collective farm or settlement owned by its members in modern Israel; children are reared collectively

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: collective farm

History

Etymology

From Hebrew קִבּוּץ (kibúts), derived from the verb קָבַץ (kaváts, “to gather, collect, assemble”). Not related to kibitz.

Across languages

Translations

51 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: kibboets — a community
  • Arabic: كِيبُوتْس (kibuts) — a community
  • Arabic: مُسْتَوْطَنَة زِرَاعِيَّة — a community
  • Armenian: կիբուց (kibucʻ) — a community
  • Belarusian: кібуц (kibuc) — a community
  • Breton: c'hibboutz — a community
  • Bulgarian: кибуц (kibuc) — a community
  • Catalan: quibuts — a community
  • Chinese Mandarin: 基布茲 /基布兹 (jībùzī) — a community
  • Czech: kibuc — a community
  • Dutch: kibboets — a community
  • Esperanto: kibuco — a community
  • Estonian: kibuts — a community
  • Finnish: kibbutsi — a community
  • French: kibboutz — a community
  • Galician: kibbutz — a community
  • Georgian: კიბუცი (ḳibuci) — a community
  • German: Kibbuz — a community
  • German: Kibbuz — a community
  • Bavarian German: Kibbuz — a community
  • Greek: κιμπούτς (kimpoúts) — a community
  • Hebrew: קיבוץ \ קִבּוּץ (kibúts) — a community
  • Hungarian: kibuc — a community
  • Indonesian: kibbutz — a community
  • Italian: kibbutz — a community
  • Japanese: キブツ (kibutsu) — a community
  • Korean: 키부츠 (kibucheu) — a community
  • Latvian: kibucs — a community
  • Lithuanian: kibucas — a community
  • Luxembourgish: Kibbuz — a community
  • Occitan: kibotz — a community
  • Polish: kibuc — a community
  • Portuguese: kibutz — a community
  • Romanian: kibuț — a community
  • Romanian: kibbutz — a community
  • Russian: кибу́ц (kibúc) — a community
  • Serbo-Croatian: кѝбуц — a community
  • Serbo-Croatian: kìbuc — a community
  • Slovak: kibuc — a community
  • Slovene: kibuc — a community
  • Lower Sorbian: kibbuz — a community
  • Upper Sorbian: kibbuz — a community
  • Spanish: kibutz — a community
  • Swahili: kibutsi — a community
  • Swedish: kibbutz — a community
  • Tagalog: kibuts — a community
  • Tamil: கிப்புட்ஸ் (kippuṭs) — a community
  • Turkish: kibbutz — a community
  • Ukrainian: кібу́ц (kibúc) — a community
  • Welsh: cibwts — a community
  • Yiddish: קיבוץ (kibuts) — a community
Real reading context

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