погром

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Bulgarian

Noun

погром (pogromm

  1. pogrom, massacre

Macedonian

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Noun

погром (pogromm

  1. pogrom, massacre

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Russian

Etymology

From по- (po-) +‎ громи́ть (gromítʹ, to smash, to sack).

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Noun

погро́м (pogrómm inan (genitive погро́ма, nominative plural погро́мы, genitive plural погро́мов)

  1. riot
  2. pogrom, ethnic violence event
    евре́йский погро́мjevréjskij pogrómanti-Jewish pogrom
    • 1919, Vladimir Lenin, “О погромной травле евреев (Anti-Jewish Pogroms)”; 1972 English translation by George Hanna
      Царская полиция в союзе с помещиками и капиталистами устраивала еврейские погромы. Hенависть измученных нуждой рабочих и крестьян помещики и капиталисты старались направить на евреев. И в других странах приходится видеть нередко, что капиталисты разжигают вражду к евреям, чтобы засорить глаза рабочего, чтобы отвлечь их взоры от настоящего врага трудящихся - от капитала.
      Carskaja policija v sojuze s pomeščikami i kapitalistami ustraivala jevrejskije pogromy. Henavistʹ izmučennyx nuždoj rabočix i krestʹjan pomeščiki i kapitalisty staralisʹ napravitʹ na jevrejev. I v drugix stranax prixoditsja videtʹ neredko, što kapitalisty razžigajut vraždu k jevrejam, štoby zasoritʹ glaza rabočevo, štoby otvlečʹ ix vzory ot nastojaščevo vraga trudjaščixsja - ot kapitala.
      The tsarist police, in alliance with the landowners and the capitalists, organised pogroms against the Jews. The landowners and capitalists tried to divert the hatred of the workers and peasants who were tortured by want against the Jews. In other countries, too, we often see the capitalists fomenting hatred against the Jews in order to blind the workers, to divert their attention from the real enemy of the working people, capital.
  3. crushing defeat
  4. (figuratively) mayhem, chaos, disorder

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  • Yiddish: פּאָגראָם (pogrom)