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noun - a Russian unit of weight equal to approximately 36 pounds
A Russian unit of weight equivalent to about 16.
noun - a Russian unit of weight
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| A Russian unit of weight equivalent to about 16.4 kilograms (36.1 pounds) avoirdupois. |
| a Russian unit of weight equal to approximately 36 pounds |
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Pood (Russian: , tr. pud, IPA: [put]), is a unit of mass equal to 40 funt (, Russian pound). Plural: pudi or pudy. Since 1899 It is approximately set to 16.38 kilograms (36.11 pounds). It was used in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. Pood was first mentioned in a number of 12th-century documents. Unlike funt, which came at least in the 14th century from Middle High German: phunt, Old East Slavic: pud (the earlier unattested form * pd) is a much older borrowing from Old Norse: pund which in turn came through the mediation of Old English: pund from Latin: pondus "weight".Together with other units of weight of the Imperial Russian weight measurement system, the USSR officially abolished the pood in 1924. But the term remained in widespread use at least until the 1940s. In his 1953 short story "Matryona's Place", Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn presents the pood as still in use amongst the Khrushchev-era Soviet peasants. * Its usage is preserved in modern Russian in certain specific cases, e.g., in r |