Pugach

== English == === Etymology === From Ukrainian or Russian Пугач (Pugač), or from Polish Puchacz; Literally, “owl”. === Proper noun === Pugach (plural Pugaches) A surname from Yiddish, Ukrainian, Russian, meaning “owl”, variant of Pugacz, equivalent to Ukrainian Пугач (Puhač) or Hebrew פוגץ or פוגטש. Burton N. Pugach (1927–2020), disbarred American lawyer Linda Eleanor Pugach (née Riss, 1937–2013), hired-blinding victim and, later, wife of Burton N. Pugach Leon Pugach (born 1972), Israeli male badminton player Alina Pugach (born 1993), Israeli female badminton player Yuval Pugach (born 2001), Israeli female badminton player ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === Pugach on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Pugatch Family History Heinrich Walter Guggenheimer; Eva H. Guggenheimer (1992), Jewish Family Names and Their Origins: An Etymological Dictionary, KTAV Publishing House, Inc., →ISBN, page 608 “Puchacz”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2025–2030