orc (humanoid monster warrior) · a police officer or titushky working for former Ukrainian president Yanukovych · a Russian person with little to no desirable qualities (unattractive, low intelligence, uncultured, etc.)
çekim: çoğul о́рки · tamlayan о́рка
zıt: эльф
köken: Borrowed from English orc. The pejorative usage appeared as early as in 2014, when Euromaidan activists referred Yanukovych's supporters and riot policemen as "orcs". Later it was extended in Ukrainian military slang as a term for the Russian enemy during the War in Donbass and was widely popularized by an official Armed Forces of Ukraine Facebook post on 25 February 2022.
köken: Borrowed from English orc, probably from Italian orco (“man-eating giant”); later revived by J. R. R. Tolkien, partly after Old English orc (“demon”); both from Latin Orcus (“the underworld; the god Pluto”), from Ancient Greek Ὅρκος (Hórkos), the personified demon of oaths (ὅρκος (hórkos, “oath”)) who inflicts punishment upon perjurers. Doublet of ogr (“ogre”).
orc (humanoid monster) · a police officer or titushky working for former Ukrainian president Yanukovych · Russian invader (a Russian, DPR, or LPR soldier participating in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine)
çekim: çoğul о́рки · tamlayan о́рка
köken: Borrowed from English orc. The pejorative usage appeared as early as in 2014, when Euromaidan activists referred Yanukovych's supporters and riot policemen as "orcs". Later it was extended in Ukrainian military slang as a term for the Russian enemy during the War in Donbass and was widely popularized by an official Armed Forces of Ukraine Facebook post on 25 February 2022.