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.
köken: Unknown. Generally believed to be based on a calque of Greek κυνοκέφαλος (kynokéfalos, literally “dog-head”). (See cap and câine, cf. Aromanian capdicãne). The -un suffix may indicate an expressive treatment, similar to gărgăun. Also, possibly from a Medieval Latin *capcanus, or linked with an old Turkic kapgan.