ethnic cleansing

English

Etymology

From ethnic + cleansing. Compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Serbo-Croatian etničko čišćenje, though this is probably attested later. Originally used of (and still often associated with) the wars in former Yugoslavia during the 1990s.

Noun

ethnic cleansing (uncountable)

1. The mass expulsion or killing of people belonging to one ethnic or religious group by those of another.

Synonyms

• ethnic purge

Translations

ethnic cleansing

• Arabic: تَطْهِير عِرْقِيّ m (taṭhīr ʕirqiyy)
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: етническо прочистване n (etničesko pročistvane)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: neteja ètnica f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 種族清洗／种族清洗 (zh) (zhǒngzú qīngxǐ), 种族清洗 (zh) (zhǒngzú qīngxǐ), 民族凈化／民族净化, 民族净化 (mínzú jìnghuà)

• Czech: etnická čistka f
• Danish: etnisk udrensning c
• Dutch: etnische zuivering f
• Esperanto: etna purigado
• Estonian: etniline puhastus
• Finnish: etninen puhdistus (fi)
• French: nettoyage ethnique (fr) m, épuration ethnique f
• Georgian: ეთნიკური წმენდა (etniḳuri c̣menda)
• German: ethnische Säuberung (de) f
• Greek: εθνοκάθαρση (el) f (ethnokátharsi)
• Hebrew: טיהור אתני (he) m (tihúr étni)
• Hungarian: etnikai tisztogatás (hu)
• Irish: glanadh eitneach m
• Italian: pulizia etnica (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 民族浄化 (みんぞくじょうか, minzoku jōka)
• Korean: 민족청소 (minjokcheongso) (minjok cheongso) (民族淸掃)
• Lithuanian: etninis valymas m
• Mongolian: угсаатны цэвэрлэгээ (ugsaatny ceverlegee)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: etnisk rensning m or f

  Nynorsk: etnisk reinsing f

• Polish: czystka etniczna f
• Portuguese: limpeza étnica f
• Rohingya: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: epurare etnică f
• Russian: этни́ческая чи́стка f (etníčeskaja čístka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: етничко чишћење n

  Roman: etničko čišćenje n

• Slovene: etnično čiščenje n
• Spanish: limpieza étnica (es) f
• Swedish: etnisk rensning c
• Turkish: etnik temizlik
• Ukrainian: етні́чна чи́стка f (etníčna čýstka)

See also

• genocide
• holocaust
• Holocaust
• mass murder
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