Etymology

Holodomor

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Today it means: The 1932–33 famine affecting rural Ukraine and other territories of the Soviet Union, a result of the forced collectivization of land-owning peasants by the Soviet government. Full definition →

Ukrainian Голодомо́р
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  1. Ukrainian · borrowed fromГолодомо́р
  2. English todayHolodomor

Late 1980s, from Ukrainian Голодомо́р (Holodomór), from го́лод (hólod, “hunger, famine”) + мо́р (mór, “mass death, exhaustion”). Compare мори́ти (morýty, “kill by hunger or exhaustion”, verb). Not related to Holocaust.

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