Donbabwe
English edit
Etymology edit
Portmanteau of Ukrainian Донецьк (Donecʹk) or Russian Донецк (Doneck) + Zimbabwe, meant to suggest underdevelopment, poverty, and endemic corruption. Alternatively borrowed from either of the two languages and coined there similarly.
Proper noun edit
Donbabwe
- (derogatory, humorous, Internet) Donetsk, in particular the mostly unrecognised Donetsk People's Republic.
- Coordinate term: Luganda
- (derogatory, humorous, Internet) Donbass
- 2019, Lorella Viola, Andreas Musolff, Migration and Media: Discourses about identities in crisis, →ISBN, Chapter 11, page 285:
- A similar pattern was reserved for Donbass in the abusive name "Donbabwe" which comprises "Donbass" and "Zimbabwe".