purga
noun
purga is a noun meaning “A fine blizzard of snow in Russia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-U-R-G-A, and it appears about once in every 52 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of purga is purgas.
What does purga mean?
noun
- 1
A fine blizzard of snow in Russia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of purga
- purgas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is purga?
Purga appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does purga come from?
From Russian пурга́ (purgá), from a Finnic source such as southern Karelian purgu or Veps purg (“snowstorm”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).