Novak

Novak (in Serbo-Croatian and Slovene; Cyrillic: ) and Novák (in Hungarian, Czech and Slovak; feminine: Nováková) is a surname and masculine given name, derived from the Slavic word for 'new' (e.g. , / ), which usually translates as 'novice', 'new man', 'newcomer'.

In most languages, the stress on the first syllable. The main exceptions are Slovene, which places the stress on the last syllable and Hungarian, which stresses the "á".

It is the most common surname in the Czech Republic, 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.

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