gulag

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡuːlɑɡ/
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• Received-Pronunciation, sometimes: /-læɡ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɡuːˈlɑk/
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• General-American: /ˈɡuˌlɑɡ/
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• General-American, sometimes: /-ˌlæɡ/
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• rhymes with (Received Pronunciation) -ɑːk
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• CMU ARPABET: G Y UW1 L AE0 G Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Russian ГУЛА́Г (GULÁG), the acronym of Гла́вное управле́ние исправи́тельно-трудовы́х лагере́й (Glávnoje upravlénije ispravítelʹno-trudovýx lageréj, “Chief Administration of Corrective-Labor Camps”): see the definition.

Borrowed from Russian ГУЛА́Г (GULÁG), the acronym of Гла́вное управле́ние исправи́тельно-трудовы́х лагере́й (Glávnoje upravlénije ispravítelʹno-trudovýx lageréj, “Chief Administration of Corrective-Labor Camps”), the government agency in charge of the Soviet Union’s network of forced labour camps, which was established in 1918 and formally abolished in 1960: see GULAG.

86 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Belarusian: ГУЛА́Г (HULÁH) — government agency in charge of the Soviet Union’s network of forced labour camps
• Polish: GUŁag — government agency in charge of the Soviet Union’s network of forced labour camps
• Russian: ГУЛА́Г (GULÁG) — government agency in charge of the Soviet Union’s network of forced labour camps
• Russian: ГУЛа́г (GULág) — government agency in charge of the Soviet Union’s network of forced labour camps
• Russian: Гула́г (Gulág) — government agency in charge of the Soviet Union’s network of forced labour camps
• Ukrainian: ГУЛА́Г (HULÁH) — government agency in charge of the Soviet Union’s network of forced labour camps
• Ukrainian: ГУТА́Б (HUTÁB) — government agency in charge of the Soviet Union’s network of forced labour camps
• Afrikaans: goelag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Arabic: غُولَاغ (ḡulāḡ) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Arabic: جُولَاج (gulāg) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Arabic: مُعَسْكَر عَمْل (muʕaskar ʕaml) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Armenian: Գուլագ (Gulag) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Asturian: gulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Azerbaijani: Qulaq — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Azerbaijani: qulaq — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Basque: gulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Belarusian: ГУЛА́Г (HULÁH) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Belarusian: гула́г (huláh) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Breton: goulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Catalan: gulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Chinese Mandarin: 古拉格 (gǔlāgé) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Czech: gulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Danish: gulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Dutch: goelag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Esperanto: gulago — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Estonian: Gulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Finnish: gulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Finnish: vankileiri — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• French: goulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Galician: gulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Georgian: გულაგი (gulagi) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• German: Gulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• German: Gulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• German: GULag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Greek: γκουλάγκ (gkoulágk) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Hebrew: גולאג — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Hindi: गूलाग (gūlāg) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Hungarian: gulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Icelandic: gúlag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Ido: gulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Indonesian: gulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Italian: gulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Japanese: グラグ (guragu) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Japanese: グラーグ (gurāgu) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Korean: 굴락 (gullak) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Korean: 굴라크 (gullakeu) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Northern Kurdish: gulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Latvian: Gulags — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Lithuanian: Gulagas — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Macedonian: гулаг (gulag) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Marathi: गुलाग (gulāg) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Norwegian Bokmål: gulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Norwegian Nynorsk: gulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Persian: گولاگ (gulâg) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Polish: gułag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Portuguese: gulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Punjabi: ਗੁਲਾਗ (gulāg) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Punjabi: گولاگ (golāg) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Romanian: gulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Russian: ГУЛА́Г (GULÁG) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Russian: ГУЛа́г (GULág) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Russian: Гула́г (Gulág) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Russian: гула́г (gulág) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Serbo-Croatian: гу̏ла̄г — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Serbo-Croatian: gȕlāg — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Slovak: gulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Slovene: gulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Spanish: gulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Swedish: gulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Thai: กูลัก — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Turkish: gulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Ukrainian: ГУЛА́Г (HULÁH) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Ukrainian: ГУТА́Б (HUTÁB) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Ukrainian: гула́г (huláh) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Ukrainian: гута́б (hutáb) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Urdu: گولاگ (gūlāg) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Uzbek: Gulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Uzbek: gulag — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Yiddish: גולאַג (gulag) — system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s)
• Marathi: गुलाग (gulāg) — place where, or political system in which, people with dissident views are routinely oppressed
• Polish: gułag — place where, or political system in which, people with dissident views are routinely oppressed
• Russian: гулаг (gulag) — place where, or political system in which, people with dissident views are routinely oppressed
• Russian: ГУЛАГ (GULAG) — place where, or political system in which, people with dissident views are routinely oppressed
• French: goulaguer — to compel (someone) into a forced labour camp or a similar place of confinement or exile
• Polish: zmuszać do pracy w obozie pracy — to compel (someone) into a forced labour camp or a similar place of confinement or exile
• Polish: zmusić do pracy w obozie pracy — to compel (someone) into a forced labour camp or a similar place of confinement or exile