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Beria

Beria proper noun: a surname from Mingrelian; especially when referring to Lavrentiy Beria, NKVD chief under Stalin's administration and one of the main architect of the Great Purge.

Proper noun

Beria

  1. A surname from Mingrelian; especially when referring to Lavrentiy Beria, NKVD chief under Stalin's administration and one of the main architect of the Great Purge.

Origin of Beria

Borrowed from Russian Берия (Berija), ultimately from Mingrelian ბერია (beria).

Words formed from Beria

Questions about Beria

What does Beria mean?
Beria means a surname from Mingrelian; especially when referring to Lavrentiy Beria, NKVD chief under Stalin's administration and one of the main architect of the Great Purge.
What part of speech is Beria?
Beria is a proper noun.

Words near Beria in the dictionary

  1. berhymed
  2. berhymes
  3. berhyming
  4. Beri
  5. beri-beri
  6. Beria
  7. Beriaism
  8. beribanded
  9. beribbon
  10. beribboned
  11. beribboning

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