pogrom

See also: Pogrom

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish פּאָגראָם‎ (pogrom), from Russian погро́м (pogróm).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒɡɹəm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pəˈɡɹoʊm/; alternatively IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊɡɹəm/

Noun

pogrom (plural pogroms)

1. A riot aimed at persecution or massacre of a particular ethnic or religious group, usually Jews.
2. An antisemitic hate crime with a large death toll, irrespective of the number of perpetrators.
   • 2019 July 17, Talia Lavin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ‎^[1]:

     More strikingly, when blood ran on the streets of Pittsburgh after the pogrom at the Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018, Trump did not meet with community leaders of the Pittsburgh Jewish community, nor the family members of the dead, nor even the city’s mayor. He spoke with Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States.

Translations

riot with the intent to massacre or terrorize a certain group, usually Jews

• Arabic: مَذْبَحَة‎ f (maḏbaḥa), بُوجْرُوم‎ m (būjrūm), بُوغْرُوم‎ m (būḡrūm)
• Belarusian: пагро́м m (pahróm)
• Bulgarian: погро́м (bg) m (pogróm)
• Catalan: pogrom (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大屠殺 (zh), 大屠杀 (zh) (dàtúshā)

• Dutch: pogrom (nl) m
• Esperanto: pogromo
• Finnish: vaino (fi), pogromi (fi)
• French: pogrom (fr) m
• Galician: pogrom (gl) m
• German: Pogrom (de) m or n
• Greek: πογκρόμ (el) (pogkróm)
• Hebrew: פּוֹגְרוֹם‎ m (pogróm)
• Hungarian: pogrom
• Japanese: ポグロム (poguromu)

• Korean: 포그롬 (pogeurom)
• Latvian: pogroms m
• Lithuanian: pogromas m
• Macedonian: погро́м m (pogróm)
• Polish: pogrom (pl) m
• Portuguese: pogrom (pt) m
• Romanian: pogrom (ro) n
• Russian: погро́м (ru) m (pogróm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: погром m

  Roman: pogrom (sh) m

• Spanish: pogromo (es) m
• Thai: โพกรม (poo-grɔm)
• Turkish: pogrom (tr)
• Ukrainian: погро́м m (pohróm)
• Yiddish: פּאָגראָם‎ m or n (pogrom)

Verb

pogrom (third-person singular simple present pogroms, present participle pogroming, simple past and past participle pogromed)

1. (transitive) To persecute or massacre a particular group of people.

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French

Noun

pogrom m (plural pogroms)

1. pogrom

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.ɡrɔm/

• Audio

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Noun

pogrom m inan

1. resounding defeat
2. massacre
3. pogrom (ethnic riot)
4. (slang, humorous) an exam that turns out to be very hard and which most students fail

Declension

declension of pogrom

	singular	plural
nominative	pogrom	pogromy
genitive	pogromu	pogromów
dative	pogromowi	pogromom
accusative	pogrom	pogromy
instrumental	pogromem	pogromami
locative	pogromie	pogromach
vocative	pogromie	pogromy

Synonyms

• (hard exam): rzeź niewiniątek

Further reading

• pogrom in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Noun

pogrom m (plural pogrons)

1. pogrom (riot against a particular ethnic or religious group)