Gulag

//ˈɡuːlɑɡ//

Synonyms for "gulag" (4 found)

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Noun(1 words)
bin

Strong matches (1)

Noun(1 words)
calaboose

Related words (2)

Noun(2 words)
campjail

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Translations

81 translations across 54 languages.

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Afrikaans

1 entries
  • goelag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Arabic

3 entries
  • جُولَاج noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))
  • غُولَاغ noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))
  • مُعَسْكَر عَمْل noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Armenian

1 entries
  • Գուլագ noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Asturian

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  • gulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Azerbaijani

2 entries
  • Qulaq noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))
  • qulaq noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Basque

1 entries
  • gulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Belarusian

3 entries
  • ГУЛА́Г name (government agency in charge of the Soviet Union’s network of forced labour camps)
  • ГУЛА́Г noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))
  • гула́г noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Breton

1 entries
  • goulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Catalan

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  • gulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 古拉格 noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Czech

1 entries
  • gulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Danish

1 entries
  • gulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Dutch

1 entries
  • goelag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Esperanto

1 entries
  • gulago noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Estonian

1 entries
  • Gulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Finnish

2 entries
  • gulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))
  • vankileiri noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

French

2 entries
  • goulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))
  • goulaguer verb (to compel (someone) into a forced labour camp or a similar place of confinement or exile)

Galician

1 entries
  • gulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Georgian

1 entries
  • გულაგი noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

German

3 entries
  • GULag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))
  • Gulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))
  • Gulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Greek

1 entries
  • γκουλάγκ noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Hebrew

1 entries
  • גולאג noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Hindi

1 entries
  • गूलाग noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Hungarian

1 entries
  • gulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Icelandic

1 entries
  • gúlag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Ido

1 entries
  • gulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Indonesian

1 entries
  • gulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Italian

1 entries
  • gulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Japanese

2 entries
  • グラグ noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))
  • グラーグ noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Korean

2 entries
  • 굴라크 noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))
  • 굴락 noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Latvian

1 entries
  • Gulags noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • Gulagas noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Macedonian

1 entries
  • гулаг noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Marathi

2 entries
  • गुलाग noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))
  • गुलाग noun (place where, or political system in which, people with dissident views are routinely oppressed)

Northern Kurdish

1 entries
  • gulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • gulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • gulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Persian

1 entries
  • گولاگ noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Polish

2 entries
  • GUŁag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))
  • gułag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Portuguese

1 entries
  • gulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Punjabi

2 entries
  • گولاگ noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))
  • ਗੁਲਾਗ noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Romanian

1 entries
  • gulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Russian

4 entries
  • ГУЛА́Г name (government agency in charge of the Soviet Union’s network of forced labour camps)
  • ГУЛа́г name (government agency in charge of the Soviet Union’s network of forced labour camps)
  • Гула́г name (government agency in charge of the Soviet Union’s network of forced labour camps)
  • ГУЛА́Г noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries
  • gȕlāg noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))
  • гу̏ла̄г noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Slovak

1 entries
  • gulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Slovene

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  • gulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Spanish

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  • gulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Swedish

1 entries
  • gulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Thai

1 entries
  • กูลัก noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Turkish

1 entries
  • gulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Ukrainian

4 entries
  • ГУЛА́Г name (government agency in charge of the Soviet Union’s network of forced labour camps)
  • ГУТА́Б name (government agency in charge of the Soviet Union’s network of forced labour camps)
  • ГУЛА́Г noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))
  • ГУТА́Б noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Urdu

1 entries
  • گولاگ noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Uzbek

2 entries
  • Gulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))
  • gulag noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Yiddish

1 entries
  • גולאַג noun (system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s))

Sample sentences

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The Russian prison system, known as the Gulag, was a very brutal place.

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Tom managed to escape from a gulag in Siberia.

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Oleg Volkov, the deputy director of the local museum, tells a visitor that the Soviet authorities converted a Russian Orthodox monastery that had been built centuries before into the Solovki Gulag.

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Fyodor spent ten years in a gulag.

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