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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)play

  Familiarity information: BALAGAN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BALAGAN (noun)


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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