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Yiddish
Etymology
Suppletion of Hebrew הורג (horég, “killing, killer”) and Hebrew הרוג (harúg, “killed”), from Hebrew הרג (harág, “to kill”).
Pronunciation
Noun
הורג • (hoyreg) m, plural הרוגים (harugem)
- murder victim
2015, Gennady Estraikh, “אַ קאָנטראָווערסאַלער דענקמאָל אין אומאַן [A Controversial Monument in Uman]”, in Forverts:דער בראַסלעווער רבי האָט געוואָלט, מע זאָל אים ברענגען צו קבֿורה דווקא אין אומאַן, כּדי ליגן לעבן די הרוגים פֿון יענער שחיטה.- der braslever rebe hot gevolt, me zol im brengen tsu kvure dafke in uman, kdey lign lebn di harugem fun yener shkhite.
- The Breslover Rebbe wanted to be buried in Uman to lie next to the victims of that massacre.
- corpse
1909, I. L. Peretz, Rayze Bilder, 2nd edition:אַז מלכּה האָט געזעהען, אַז עס איז כּלה כּל הקצין, האָט זי אָנגעחאַפּט נח'ן אין מיט'ן גאַסט בײַ'ם פאָרקאָלנער, און געשלעפּט װי אַ הורג אַרײַן צום רב.- az malke hot gezen, az es iz kole kol akitsn, hot zi ongekhapt noyekhen in mitn gast baym forkolner, un geshlept vi a hoyreg arayn tsum rov.
- When Malke saw that the jig was up, she grabbed Noah by the lining of his jacket and dragged him in like a corpse to the rabbi.