The story
- Russian · borrowed fromЦарь-бо́мба“emperor of bombs”
- English todayTsar Bomba
Borrowed from Russian Царь-бо́мба (Carʹ-bómba, “emperor of bombs”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tsar Bomba
Today it means: A 50-megaton thermonuclear bomb, detonated by the Soviet Union in October 1961. It was the biggest nuclear bomb ever exploded. Full definition →
Russian Царь-бо́мба