gulag

See also: gułag and Gulag

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ГУЛА́Г (GULÁG): Гла́вное управле́ние исправи́тельно-трудовы́х лагере́й (Glávnoje upravlénije ispravítelʹno-trudovýx lageréj, “Chief Administration of Corrective-Labor Camps, Main Directorate for Places of Detention, Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps, etc.”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡu.lɑɡ/, or sometimes /ˈɡu.læɡ/

Noun

gulag (plural gulags)

1. A prison camp.
2. The system of all Soviet prison and/or labor camps in use during the Stalinist period.
   • One important difference between the GULAG system and the Nazi concentration camps was that a person sentenced to five years of hard labor in a Soviet labor camp could expect, assuming he or she survived, to be released at the end of the sentence. [Gulag: Soviet Prison Camps and Their Legacy; By David Hosford, Pamela Kachurin and Thomas Lamont. National Resource Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, Harvard University]

Verb

gulag (third-person singular simple present gulags, present participle gulaging, simple past and past participle gulaged)

1. (informal, transitive) To force into this prison or a similar system.

Translations

Soviet labour camp

• Arabic: مُعَسْكَر عَمْل‎ m (muʿaskar ʿaml), غُولَاغ‎ m (ḡulāḡ), جُولَاج‎ m (gulāg)
• Armenian: Գուլագ (Gulag)
• Azerbaijani: Qulaq, qulaq (az)
• Belarusian: ГУЛА́Г m (HULÁH), гула́г m (huláh)
• Catalan: gulag m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 古拉格 (gǔlāgé)

• Danish: gulaglejr c
• Estonian: Gulag (et)
• Finnish: vankileiri (fi)
• French: goulag (fr) m
• Georgian: გულაგი (gulagi)
• German: Gulag (de) m, Gulag (de) n (rare), GULag m
• Greek: γκουλάγκ (el) m (gkoulágk)
• Hebrew: גולאג‎
• Hindi: गूलाग (gūlāg)

• Japanese: グラグ (guragu)
• Korean: 굴락 (gullak)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: gulag (ku) f

• Latvian: Gulags m
• Lithuanian: Gulagas m
• Persian: گولاگ‎ (fa) (gulâg)
• Polish: gułag (pl) m
• Portuguese: gulag (pt) m
• Russian: ГУЛА́Г (ru) m (GULÁG), ГУЛа́г (GULág), Гула́г (Gulág), гула́г m (gulág)
• Spanish: gulag (es) m
• Thai: กูลัก
• Ukrainian: ГУЛА́Г m (HULÁH), ГУТА́Б m (HUTÁB), гула́г m (huláh), гута́б m (hutáb)
• Urdu: گولاگ‎ m (gūlāg)
• Uzbek: Gulag, gulag
• Yiddish: גולאַג‎ m (gulag)

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Portuguese

Noun

gulag m (plural gulags)

1. gulag (Soviet labour camp)

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ГУЛА́Г (GULÁG).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡuˈlaɡ/, [ɡuˈlaɣ]
• Rhymes: -aɣ
• Hyphenation: gu‧lag

Noun

gulag m (plural gulags)

1. gulag