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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

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