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balagan

NOUN
  1. a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian)
    it was utter and complete balagan!

How To Use balagan In A Sentence

  • So far, this is a case where I hope gay-rights activists and true liberals -- those who believe in liberty -- will take a deep breath before joyfully exploiting the bathroom balagan as an additional reason to oppose the Senator. What's the Connection?: Hypocrisy Redux
  • Step-by-Step: Making Aliyah to Israel: What a balagan! What a balagan!
  • ***The censors now allow the following: There was an almost balagan. Archive 2006-04-01
  • Because of the attack on the Pentagon, the whole area was in such balagan that he could not get through to me on that line. Remembering what was lost September 11 2001
  • The native Kamschatdales have two kinds of houses of indigenous architecture -- one for summer, the "balagan," and another to which they retire during the winter, called the "jourt. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt
  • A gripping tale of all the balagan [chaos] that goes on in Ajami: relations between Jewish and Arab neighbours, West Bankers and Israeli Arabs, Christians and Muslims, and everything in between. Global Voices in English » Israel: “Ajami” Reveals Nuanced Look at Israeli Society
  • it was utter and complete balagan!
  • Work was a balagan on so many levels but I'll only discuss one of them and that is that I had to cancel my class because the powerpoint projector wouldn't work on any of the computers available and what they needed to see to understand was on the powerpoint. Archive 2006-05-01
  • I’m a major fan and multiyear devotee, despite the balagan of long lines and anxious ticket holders. 2007 July | Jewschool
  • The Sandmonkey has made a very interesting post about the current balagan mess and the comments are also very worth a read. Archive 2006-06-01
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