Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·russian ·1880s
Pogrom
from погром (pogrom)
- Meaning
- Devastation, demolition — ethnic-violence riots.
- Source word
- погром (pogrom)
- Route into English
- Russian newspapers covering the 1881–1884 anti-Jewish riots; the word entered English as the standard term.
- Arrived
- 1880s
English borrows.
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