Beria
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian Берия (Berija), ultimately from Mingrelian ბერია (beria).
Proper noun
Beria
- A surname from Mingrelian; especially when referring to Lavrentiy Beria, NKVD chief under Stalin's administration and one of the main architect of the Great Purge.
Translations
Further reading
- “Beria”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Beria”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Beria”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- “Beria”, in Collins English Dictionary.