שואה

Hebrew

Root
שׁ־א־ה (sh-ʾ-h)
1 term

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Noun

שׁוֹאָה • (sho'á) f (plural indefinite שׁוֹאוֹת, singular construct שׁוֹאַת־, plural construct שׁוֹאוֹת־)

  1. a catastrophe, a ruin
  2. (slang) something hard, unbearable

Proper noun

הַשּׁוֹאָה • (hasho'á) f

  1. (history) Shoah (the systematic mass murder of six million Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II)

Descendants

  • → Afrikaans: Sjoa
  • → Czech: šoa
  • → Dutch: Sjoa
  • → English: Shoah
  • → Esperanto: Ŝoaho
  • → French: Shoah
  • → German: Schoah, Sho­ah, Shoa, Schoa
  • → Hungarian: soa
  • → Italian: Shoah
  • → Latvian: Šoā
  • → Lithuanian: Šoa
  • → Polish: Shoah, Szoa, Szoah
  • → Portuguese: Shoá
  • → Russian: Шоа́ (Šoá)
  • → Spanish: Shoá
  • → Swedish: Shoah
  • → Ukrainian: Шоа́ (Šoá)

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