English
Grad
Grad comes from Russian Град ‘codename for a type of multiple rocket launcher’.
- RussianmodernГрадGrad‘codename for a type of multiple rocket launcher’
- Englishearliest quotation 1989Grad
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- RussianmodernГрадGrad‘codename for a type of multiple rocket launcher’
- Englishearliest quotation 1989Grad
Earliest quotation: 1989, Jane’s Defence Weekly, Coulsdon: “It supplements the 220 mm BM-22 Uragan (‘Hurricane’) and…”
Every English word from Russian Град
Today it means
noun A type of Soviet artillery multiple rocket launcher, or a rocket fired by this.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Russian Град / Grad