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- Ukrainian · borrowed fromмахно́вщина
- Russian · borrowed fromмахно́вщина
- English todayMakhnovshchina
From Russian махно́вщина (maxnóvščina) or Ukrainian махно́вщина (maxnóvščyna). Both mean "the thing relating to Makhno", and are equivalent to Махно (Maxno) + -ов (-ov) + -ский (-skij) + -ина (-ina).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.