KZ

.kz Translingual Symbol 1 2 Kazakhstan 1992 mul KAZ ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 alpha-3 mul Kazakhstan German Etymology The expected initialism de KL was used officially at least in the earlier years of the National Socialist concentration camps. While it is not entirely clear how the informal variant de KZ originated, it is usually thought that it came to be preferred and eventually standardised due to its sounding harsher. A possible origin is from the fact that the common German pronunciation of de Konzentrationslager contains the cluster [ts], predominantly represented in German by the letter Z, three times: [ˌkɔn.tsɛn.tʁaˈtsjoːntsˌlaːɡɐ]. Another theory derives it from de Zuchthaus prison with aggravated conditions of detention, which at least officially, however, was never used for the camps. Pronunciation de /ˌkaːˈtsɛt/ /kaˈtsɛt/ de De-KZ.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Noun n,(s),(s) de Konzentrationslager concentration camp de uncommon de Krankenzimmer Descendants yi קאַצעט 1 pl kacet 1