English Explanatory Dictionary

Asharshylyk

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A widespread famine that afflicted Kazakhstan from 1930-1933.

Word forms

Asharshylyk

Etymology

From Kazakh ашаршылық (aşarşylyq, “famine, hunger”).

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