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pakhanates

pakhanates is the plural of pakhanate.

Meaning of pakhanate

Noun

pakhanate (plural pakhanates)

  1. Another term for mafia state.
    • In a similar vein, political scientist Andrei Piontkovsky argues that the Putin regime is a "pakhanate"—a coinage derived from pakhan, Russian underworld slang for a gang boss—intent on surrounding itself with a protective ring of copacetic "godfather states" to protect itself against change.2014, Cathy Young, Putin's New Old Russia, Reason

Questions about pakhanates

What is pakhanates the plural of?
Pakhanates is the plural of pakhanate.

Words near pakhanates in the dictionary

  1. pakhal
  2. pakhali
  3. pakhalis
  4. pakhals
  5. pakhanate
  6. pakhanates
  7. Pakhangba
  8. Pakhangbaism
  9. Pakhangpa
  10. pakhavaj
  11. pakhavajs

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