balagan

English Thesaurus

1. a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian) (noun.state)

hypernym	:	bedlam, chaos, pandemonium, topsy-turvydom, topsy-turvyness,
definition	:	a state of extreme confusion and disorder (noun.state)

domain region	:	russia, soviet union, union of soviet socialist republics, ussr,
definition	:	a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991 (noun.location)