ethnic cleansing

Significado (Inglés)

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

Conceptos

limpieza étnica

depuración étnica

política de depuración étnica

Sinónimos

genocide

ethnic purification

Traducciones

nettoyage ethnique

épuration ethnique

ethnische Säuberung

pulizia etnica

etnische zuivering

limpeza étnica

εθνοκάθαρση

purification ethnique

neteja ètnica

etnik temizlik

تَطْهِير عِرْقِيّ

εθνική εκκαθάριση

purificação étnica

ethnikī ekkathárisī

Etimología (Inglés)

Cognado con rumano: 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.