<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Look up Novák or Nowak in Wiktionary, the free dictionary . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Look up Novák or Nowak in Wiktionary, the free dictionary . </Td> </Tr> <P> Novak (in Serbo - Croatian and Slovene; Cyrillic: Новак), Novák (in Hungarian, Czech and Slovak), Nowak (in German and Polish) is a Slavic surname and masculine given name, derived from the word for "new" (e.g. Polish: nowy, Czech: nový, Serbo - Croatian: novo / ново), which depending on the exact language and usage, translates as "novice", "new man", "newcomer", or "stranger". The name was often given to a new arrival in a city or a convert to Christianity . It was also used for newcomers to an army and as an occupational surname for people who used the slash - and - burn method to create new arable land--novina . It is pronounced almost the same way in most languages, with the stress on the first syllable . The main exception is Slovene, which places the stress on the last syllable . </P> <P> It is the most common surname in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovenia, and the sixth most common in Croatia . It is also found in Romania and Moldova in the Novac form and among Ashkenazi Jews in various forms depending on their country of origin . </P>

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