English noun: balagan | |||
1. | balagan (state) a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian) | ||
Samples | It was utter and complete balagan!. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | bedlam, chaos, pandemonium, topsy-turvydom, topsy-turvyness | ||
Domain region | Russia, Soviet Union, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR | ||