Shoah
Meanings
name
- The systematic mass murder (genocide) of an estimated six million European Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany during World War II.
noun
- A mass murder.
verb
- To destroy; to remove; to take down, especially from an Internet platform.
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From Hebrew שׁוֹאָה (šōʾā, “catastrophe”).
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