n. A thatched pyramidal wooden hut of eastern Siberia, raised on piles to a height of about 10 feet, and reached by a ladder consisting of a notched tree-stem.
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n. a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian)
Word Usage
"The native Kamschatdales have two kinds of houses of indigenous architecture -- one for summer, the "balagan," and another to which they retire during the winter, called the "jourt.""