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/,[1] or sometimes /ˈɡu.læɡ/[2]

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.

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

References

  1. ↑ “gulag” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  2. ↑

Portuguese

Noun

gulag m (plural gulags)

  1. gulag (Soviet labour camp)

Spanish

Noun

gulag m (plural gulags)

  1. gulag
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