The English language has taken several Russian words. Some, such as mammoth and sable, are comfortably assumed to be from a more closely related language. Others were authentically specific to Russian culture but can be applied to certain analogous Western concepts.
Here is a list of well-known Russian words and their original meanings that are used in English pretty often.
Agitprop – It means artistic political propaganda, from a cramped form of the Russian forms of the words agitation and propaganda.
Beluga – A kind of whale or sturgeon.
Babushka – In Russian, it refers to “old woman”. While in English a form of the scarf is usually worn by babushkas.
Commissar – It means an official.
Dacha – A country house.
Glasnost – A policy of political openness, and transparency, through the Russian word for “publicity”.
Intelligentsia – The intellectual elites of the society. The English word intelligent.
Mammoth – A pre-historic timed mammal. And by large a synonym for massive.
Politburo – In the Soviet-era primary source of government policy decisions, a curtail of the Russian forms of political and bureau words.
Samovar – An urn is used for heating tea.
Troika – A sleigh or carriage pulled by three horses or better said a triumvirate (a ruling or administrative trio).
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