holocaust (among the ancient Hebrews, a sacrifice in which the victim was completely consumed by fire) · holocaust (victim offered in this sacrifice) · massacre, slaughter (killing of a large number of human beings)
çekim: çoğul holocaustos
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese holocausto, a learned borrowing from Latin holocaustum, borrowed from Ancient Greek ὁλόκαυστον (holókauston), from ὁλόκαυστος (holókaustos), from ὅλος (hólos, “whole”) + καυστός (kaustós, “burnt”).
the Holocaust (the mass murder of Jews and other groups by the Nazi regime during World War II)
köken: From the definite of förintelse (“destruction, annihilation”). Literally the destruction ("of Jews" is implied). Cognate with German Vernichtung, a word used in Hitler's prophecy from the 30 January 1939 Reichstag speech. In 1963 the first Swedish translation of the book The Destruction of the European Jews was given the title Hur de europeiska judarna förintades. The word was then chosen as the…