Dnipropetrovsk

English

Alternative forms

Dnipropetrovs’k
Dnepropetrovsk

Etymology

From Ukrainian Дніпропетро́вськ (Dnipropetróvsʹk), from Дніпро́ (Dnipró, “Dnieper River”) + Петро́вський (Petróvs’kyj), after Soviet revolutionary Hryhoriy Ivanovych Petrovsky (Grigory Ivanovich Petrovsky). Compare Russian Днепропетро́вск (Dnepropetróvsk).

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: Dni‧pro‧pe‧trovsk

Proper noun

Dnipropetrovsk

A city on the Dnieper in Ukraine, administrative centre of Dnipropetrovsk province.
Dnipropetrovsk province (oblast), in south-eastern Ukraine.

Synonyms

Dnepropetrovsk
Dnipro-Petrovske, Dnipro-Petrovs’ke (historical)
Sicheslav (historical)
Novorossiysk (historical)
Katerynoslav (historical)
Yekaterinoslav (historical)
(province): Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Related terms

Dnieper, Dnipro, Dnepr

Translations

city

Armenian: Դնեպրոպետրովսկ (Dnepropetrovsk)
Belarusian: Днепрапятро́ўск m (Dnjeprapjatróŭsk)
Bulgarian: Днепропетро́вск m (Dnepropetróvsk)
Danish: Dnepropetrovsk
Georgian: დნეპროპეტროვსკი (dneṗroṗeṭrovsḳi)
Greek: Ντνιπροπετρόφσκ (Dnipropetrófsk)
Kazakh: Днепропетровск (Dnepropetrovsk)

Kyrgyz: Днепропетровск (Dnepropetrovsk)
Portuguese: Dnepropetrovsk f, Dnipropetrovsk f
Russian: Днепропетро́вск (ru) m (Dnepropetróvsk)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Дњепропетровск m

Roman: Dnjepropetrovsk m
Ukrainian: Дніпропетро́вськ (uk) m (Dnipropetróvsʹk)

Portuguese

Proper noun

Dnipropetrovsk f

Alternative form of Dnepropetrovsk

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