Etymology

tamizdat

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Today it means: Writings published abroad and smuggled back into the former USSR. Full definition →

Russian тамизда́т
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  1. Russian · borrowed fromтамизда́т
  2. English todaytamizdat

Borrowed from Russian тамизда́т (tamizdát, literally “published there”), from там (tam, “there”) + изда́ть (izdátʹ).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.