ethnic cleansing

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

The mass expulsion or killing of people belonging to one ethnic group by those of another.

Έννοιες

εθνοκάθαρση

εθνική εκκαθάριση

ethnikī ekkathárisī

ethnokátharsi

Συνώνυμα

genocide

ethnic purification

Μεταφράσεις

épuration ethnique

nettoyage ethnique

ethnische Säuberung

pulizia etnica

limpieza étnica

limpeza étnica

etnische zuivering

neteja ètnica

purification ethnique

etnik temizlik

purificação étnica

تَطْهِير عِرْقِيّ

nettoyage

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Συγγενές με Ρουμανικά: purificare etnică

In summary

Possibly a calque of Serbo-Croatian etničko čišćenje, though this is probably attested later. Popularized by (and still often associated with) the wars in former Yugoslavia during the 1990s; however, versions of the phrase have been attested since the 1860s in various languages (with the earliest attestation translating directly to the phrase being Romanian purificare etnică from 1941) and it probably arose independently on numerous occasions.