gulag

Etymology


Borrowed from, the of , the government agency in charge of the Soviet Union’s network of forced labour camps, which was established in 1918 and formally abolished in 1960: see.

Noun

 * 1)  Also GULAG: the system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s).
 * 2) A prison camp, especially one used to hold political prisoners.
 * 3)  A place where, or political system in which, people with dissident views are routinely oppressed.
 * 1) A prison camp, especially one used to hold political prisoners.
 * 2)  A place where, or political system in which, people with dissident views are routinely oppressed.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: goelag
 * Arabic: غُولَاغ, جُولَاج, مُعَسْكَر عَمْل
 * Armenian: Գուլագ
 * Asturian: gulag
 * Azerbaijani: Qulaq,
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: ГУЛА́Г, гула́г
 * Breton: goulag
 * Catalan: gulag
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: gulag
 * Danish: gulaglejr
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: gulago
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: gulag
 * Georgian: გულაგი
 * German:, , GULag
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: גולאג
 * Hindi: गूलाग
 * Hungarian: gulag
 * Icelandic: gúlag
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: gulag
 * Japanese: グラグ, グラーグ
 * Korean: 굴락,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latvian: Gulags
 * Lithuanian: Gulagas
 * Macedonian: гулаг
 * Marathi: गुलाग
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: gulag
 * Nynorsk: gulag
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, GUŁag
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਗੁਲਾਗ
 * Romanian: gulag
 * Russian:, ГУЛа́г, Гула́г, гула́г
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: gulag
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: gulag
 * Thai: กูลัก
 * Turkish: gulag
 * Ukrainian: ГУЛА́Г, ГУТА́Б, гула́г, гута́б
 * Urdu: گولاگ
 * Uzbek: Gulag, gulag
 * Western Panjabi: گولاگ
 * Yiddish: גולאַג


 * Marathi: गुलाग

Verb

 * 1)  To compel (someone) into a forced labour camp or a similar place of confinement or exile.

Translations

 * French:

Noun

 * 1) gulag

Noun

 * 1)  Soviet labour camp

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