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English
Etymology
From concentration + camp. In later use partly after German Konzentrationslager, itself a calque of the English term.
Noun
concentration camp (plural concentration camps)
- A camp where troops are assembled, prior to combat or transport.
- 1913, General Staff Corps, Field Service Regulations, United States Army - Page 223
- A concentration camp is a place, near the scene of intended operations or near an embarkation point, where troops are assembled for immediate use against the enemy or for transport to an over-sea theater of operations.
- 1930, Winston S. Churchill, My Early Life, Chapter XIV
- The 21st Lancers… …journey forward by nine days' march to the advanced concentration camp just north of the Shabluka Cataract.
- A camp where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners, prisoners of war, refugees etc., are detained for the purpose of confining them in one place, typically with inadequate or inhumane facilities.
1927, Charles E. Chapman, A History of the Cuban Republic, IV.81:All Cubans (men, women, and children) were ordered to move into garrisoned Spanish towns or concentration camps.
2015 January 9, The Guardian:In 1945, overseen by Alfred Hitchcock, a crack team of British film-makers went to Germany to document the horror of the concentration camps.
- 2019, Bernie Sanders, Full interview: Bernie Sanders meets with the Register's editorial board (12.6.19)DesMoines Register, 6 December, at 37:13:
- What we should be doing with China is understanding they are a superpower, they are a strong economy. We want to be working with them. We certainly don't want a Cold War. But we should be speaking out against human rights abuses. When you put into concentration camps, you know, or at least lock up, I don't know, a million Muslims there, somebody's got to speak out about that.
- (figuratively) A situation wherein crowding and extremely harsh conditions take place.
The UN inspector stated that the Australian government's migrant detention facilities were in effect concentration camps.
Hyponyms
(camp where large numbers of people are confined):
Descendants
Translations
camp where large numbers of persons are detained
- Afrikaans: konsentrasiekamp
- Arabic: مُعَسْكَر اِعْتِقَال m (muʕaskar iʕtiqāl), مُعْتَقَل (ar) m (muʕtaqal)
- Armenian: համակենտրոնացման ճամբար (hy) (hamakentronacʻman čambar)
- Azerbaijani: konsentrasiya düşərgəsi, həbs düşərgələri, konslager
- Belarusian: канцэнтрацы́йны ла́гер m (kancentracýjny láhjer), канцла́гер m (kancláhjer)
- Bulgarian: концентрацио́нен ла́гер m (koncentraciónen láger), ко́нцла́гер m (kóncláger)
- Catalan: camp de concentració m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 集中營/集中营 (zaap6 zung1 jing4)
- Mandarin: 集中營/集中营 (zh) (jízhōngyíng)
- Czech: koncentrační tábor (cs) m, koncentrák (cs) m (colloquial)
- Danish: koncentrationslejr c, udryddelseslejr c
- Dutch: concentratiekamp (nl) n
- Esperanto: koncentrejo (eo)
- Estonian: koonduslaager
- Faroese: týningarlega f
- Finnish: keskitysleiri (fi)
- French: camp de concentration (fr) m
- Galician: campo de concentración m
- Georgian: საკონცენტრაციო ბანაკი (saḳoncenṭracio banaḳi)
- German: Konzentrationslager (de) n, KZ (de) n
- Greek: στρατόπεδο συγκέντρωσης n (stratópedo sygkéntrosis)
- Haitian Creole: kan konsantrasyon
- Hebrew: מחנה ריכוז \ מַחֲנֵה רִכּוּז (he) m (makhané rikúz)
- Hindi: नज़रबंदी शिविर m (nazarbandī śivir), बंदी शिविर m (bandī śivir)
- Hungarian: koncentrációs tábor (hu)
- Icelandic: útrýmingarbúðir f pl
- Indonesian: kamp konsentrasi (id)
- Irish: campa géibhinn m, sluachampa géibhinn m
- Italian: campo di concentramento (it) m
- Japanese: 強制収容所 (きょうせいしゅうようじょ, kyōsei shūyōjo)
- Kazakh: концентрациялық лагерь (konsentrasiälyq lager), концлагерь (konslager)
- Khmer: បន្ទាយផ្ដុំជន (bɑntiəy phdom cŭən)
- Korean: 강제수용소(强制收容所) (gangjesuyongso), 정치범 수용소(政治犯收容所) (jeongchibeom suyongso)
- Kyrgyz: концлагерь (kontslager)
- Latvian: koncentrācijas nometne f
- Lithuanian: koncentracijos stovykla f
- Macedonian: концентрацио́нен логор m (koncentraciónen logor)
- Malay: kem tahanan
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: konsentrasjonsleir m, utryddelsesleir m
- Nynorsk: konsentrasjonsleir m, utryddingsleir m
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: اُرْدوگاهِ کارِ اِجْباری (ordugâh-e kâr-e ejbâri)
- Polish: obóz koncentracyjny (pl) m, kacet (pl) m (slang)
- Portuguese: campo de concentração m
- Romanian: lagăr de concentrare (ro) n
- Russian: концла́герь (ru) m (konclágerʹ), концентрацио́нный ла́герь (ru) m (koncentraciónnyj lágerʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: campa bàis m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: концентрациони логор m
- Roman: koncentracioni logor m
- Slovak: koncentračný tábor m, koncentrák m colloquial
- Slovene: koncentracijsko taborišče (sl) n
- Spanish: campo de concentración m
- Swahili: please add this translation if you can
- Swedish: koncentrationsläger (sv) n, utrotningsläger (sv) n
- Tajik: лагерҳои консентратсионӣ (lagerhoyi konsentratsionī)
- Turkish: toplama kampı (tr)
- Turkmen: konslager
- Ukrainian: концентраці́йний та́бір m (koncentracíjnyj tábir), концта́бір m (konctábir)
- Uyghur: يىغىۋېلىش لاگېرى (yighiwëlish lagëri), جازا لاگېرى (jaza lagëri), توپلاش لاگېرى (toplash lagëri)
- Uzbek: kontsentratsiyon lager, kontslager
- Vietnamese: trại tập trung (vi)
- West Frisian: konsintraasjekamp n
- Yiddish: קאַצעט m (katset)
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