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Здравствуйте,
I am trying to figure out the word: "овощ", in genitive pl. and nominative pl., I have tried various other sources but the answers comes back as "Word not found" or something else that is not applicable. Can you please help?
Большое спасибо,
There well and truly is no such word. I'm guessing it's a misspelling (more of a typo or transliteration accident, really) of овощ, which has nom. pl. óвощи and gen. pl. овощéй.
UPD. Oh! Dahl's dictionary actually does list обощ it as a southern dialectal form of овощ. The endings would be the same (standardly, anyway; the respective dialect might have been sufficiently Ukrainian-leaning to go for обощов or обощев), and with the lot of dialectal levelling-out in the 20th century there's a high chance the form is extinct by now, or else surviving in a handful of villages.
