Beria

English

Etymology

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

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.

Translations

Beria

• Russian: Берия (ru) m or f (Berija)

Further reading

• “Beria”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Beria”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Beria”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “Beria”, in Collins English Dictionary.