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Example sentences for: balagan
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Utter and complete balagan!
And in Yiddish, balagan means mess, bedlam.
My guess is that the joker who named the program Balagan was a Russian-speaking immigrant, either to Israel or America, who may well have been aware of the word's currency in modern Hebrew but for whom the meaning remained the Russian one.
Was there in the store, I asked, a mischievous employee, a Mr. or Ms. Balagan, who playfully infected my machine with a computer virus (whatever that is)?
Intrigued by Milton Horowitz's A Discouraging Word [OBITER DICTA, XXII, 1, 13], I set about tracking the word balagan along its etymological course back from the modern Hebrew into which, according to Milton Horowitz quoting Herman Wouk, the word was borrowed from Russian.