different between gulag vs kolyma

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ?????? (GULÁG): ???????? ??????????? ??????????????-????????? ???????? (Glávnoje upravlénije ispravítel?no-trudovýx lageréj, “Chief Administration of Corrective-Labor Camps”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u.l??/, or sometimes /??u.læ?/

Noun

gulag (plural gulags)

1. A prison camp.
2. The system of all Soviet prison and/or labor camps in use during the Stalinist period.
   • One important difference between the GULAG system and the Nazi concentration camps was that a person sentenced to five years of hard labor in a Soviet labor camp could expect, assuming he or she survived, to be released at the end of the sentence. [Gulag: Soviet Prison Camps and Their Legacy; By David Hosford, Pamela Kachurin and Thomas Lamont. National Resource Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, Harvard University]

Verb

gulag (third-person singular simple present gulags, present participle gulaging, simple past and past participle gulaged)

1. (informal, transitive) To force into this prison or a similar system.

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Portuguese

Noun

gulag m (plural gulags)

1. gulag (Soviet labour camp)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ?????? (GULÁG).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?la?/, [?u?la??]
• Rhymes: -a?
• Hyphenation: gu?lag

Noun

gulag m (plural gulags)

1. gulag