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/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒɡɹəm, (General American) -oʊɡɹəm, (General American) -oʊm

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)
• Azerbaijani: talan (az), çapqın, qırğın
• Belarusian: пагро́м m (pahróm)
• Bulgarian: погро́м (bg) m (pogróm)
• Catalan: pogrom (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: pogrom m
• Danish: pogrom c
• 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) n (pogkróm)
• Hebrew: פּוֹגְרוֹם‎ m (pogróm)
• Hungarian: pogrom
• Italian: pogrom (it) m
• Japanese: ポグロム (poguromu)
• Kazakh: ойран (oyran), погром (pogrom)
• Korean: 포그롬 (pogeurom)

• Latvian: pogroms m
• Lithuanian: pogromas m
• Macedonian: погро́м m (pogróm)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pogrom m

• Polish: pogrom (pl) m
• Portuguese: pogrom (pt) m
• Romanian: pogrom (ro) n
• Russian: погро́м (ru) m (pogróm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̀гром m

  Roman: pògrom (sh) m

• Slovak: pogrom m
• Slovene: pogrom m
• Spanish: pogromo (es) m
• Swedish: pogrom (sv) c
• Thai: โพกรม (poo-grom)
• 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

Pronunciation

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Noun

pogrom m (plural pogroms)

1. pogrom

Further reading

• “pogrom”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Hungarian

Etymology

From Russian погро́м (pogróm, “pogrom, massacre”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpoɡrom]
• Hyphenation: pog‧rom
• Rhymes: -om

Noun

pogrom (plural pogromok)

1. pogrom (riot aimed at persecution or massacre of a particular ethnic or religious group, usually Jews)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	pogrom	pogromok
accusative	pogromot	pogromokat
dative	pogromnak	pogromoknak
instrumental	pogrommal	pogromokkal
causal-final	pogromért	pogromokért
translative	pogrommá	pogromokká
terminative	pogromig	pogromokig
essive-formal	pogromként	pogromokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	pogromban	pogromokban
superessive	pogromon	pogromokon
adessive	pogromnál	pogromoknál
illative	pogromba	pogromokba
sublative	pogromra	pogromokra
allative	pogromhoz	pogromokhoz
elative	pogromból	pogromokból
delative	pogromról	pogromokról
ablative	pogromtól	pogromoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	pogromé	pogromoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	pogroméi	pogromokéi

Possessive forms of pogrom
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	pogromom	pogromjaim
2nd person sing.	pogromod	pogromjaid
3rd person sing.	pogromja	pogromjai
1st person plural	pogromunk	pogromjaink
2nd person plural	pogromotok	pogromjaitok
3rd person plural	pogromjuk	pogromjaik

Derived terms

Compound words

• pogromhangulat
• pogromlovag
• pogromtevékenység

 

Further reading

• pogrom in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

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Polish

Etymology

Deverbal of pogromić.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.ɡrɔm/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɡrɔm
• Syllabification: po‧grom

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

   Synonym: rzeź niewiniątek

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

Further reading

• pogrom in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• 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)

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Romanian

Etymology

From Russian погром (pogrom), from по- (po-) +‎ громи́ть (gromítʹ, “to smash, to sack”), from гром (grom, “roar, thunder”), from Proto-Slavic *gromъ (“thunder”).

Noun

pogrom n (plural pogromuri)

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

Declension

Declension of pogrom

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) pogrom	pogromul	(niște) pogromuri	pogromurile
genitive/dative	(unui) pogrom	pogromului	(unor) pogromuri	pogromurilor
vocative	pogromule		pogromurilor

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Turkish

Etymology

From Russian погро́м (pogróm, “pogrom, massacre”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔɡ.ɾɔm/

Noun

pogrom (definite accusative pogromu, plural pogromlar)

1. pogrom

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	pogrom
Definite accusative	pogromu
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pogrom	pogromlar
Definite accusative	pogromu	pogromları
Dative	pogroma	pogromlara
Locative	pogromda	pogromlarda
Ablative	pogromdan	pogromlardan
Genitive	pogromun	pogromların