ethnic cleansing

Significado (Inglês)

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

Conceitos

limpeza étnica

purificação étnica

Limpeza étnica

Sinônimos

genocide

ethnic purification

Traduções

nettoyage ethnique

épuration ethnique

pulizia etnica

limpieza étnica

ethnische Säuberung

etnische zuivering

εθνοκάθαρση

purification ethnique

neteja ètnica

etnik temizlik

تَطْهِير عِرْقِيّ

εθνική εκκαθάριση

Nettoyage ethnique

ethnikī ekkathárisī

Etimologia (Inglês)

Cognato com romeno: 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.