English Explanatory Dictionary

sahwa

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A series of political purges in the late 15th and 16th centuries, during which sarim scholars were persecuted by political rivals.

Word forms

sahwa

Etymology

From Korean 사화 (sahwa).

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