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BALAGAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does balagan mean?
• BALAGAN (noun)
The noun BALAGAN has 1 sense:
1. a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian)
Familiarity information: BALAGAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Context example:
it was utter and complete balagan!
Hypernyms ("balagan" is a kind of...):
bedlam; chaos; pandemonium; topsy-turvydom; topsy-turvyness (a state of extreme confusion and disorder)
Domain region:
Russia; Soviet Union; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR (a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991)
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