חמיל

Hebrew

Etymology

From Polish Chmielnicki, itself from Carpathian Rusyn Хмелнiцкiи (Xmelnickiy).

Proper noun

חמיל • (chmiel)

1. (historical) Euphemistic form of the name of Bohdan Khmelnytsky (c. 1595–1657), a Ukrainian Cossack hetman who led an uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and signed the Treaty of Pereyaslav with Czar Alexis I of Russia.
   • 1653, Yeven Mezulah; Nathan ben Moses Hannover:

     ועתה אתחיל לכתוב הגזרות רעות שסיבב חמי״ל ימ״ש במדינת רוסי״א ולי״טא ופולי״ן בשכת ת״ח ות״ט ות״י ות״יא ות״יב לפ׳ק:

     And now, I will start to write of the evil decrees enacted by Khmelnytsky, may his name and memory be obliterated, in the nation(s) of Russia, Lithuania, and Poland, in the years (5)408, '409, '410, '411 and 412.