Khmelnytskyi

English

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Alternative forms

• Khmelnytsky, Khmel’nyts’ky, Khmelnytskyy, Khmel’nyts’kyy
• Khmelnitskiy, Khmel’nitskiy, Khmelnitsky, Khmel’nitsky

Etymology

From Ukrainian Хмельницький (Xmelʹnýcʹkyj), after the Ukrainian Cossack Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Derived from хміль (xmil’, “hops, humulus”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Khmel‧nyts‧kyi

Proper noun

Khmelnytskyi

1. A city on the Dnieper in Ukraine, administrative centre of Dnipropetrovsk province (oblast).
2. Khmelnytskyi province (oblast), in south-eastern Ukraine.
3. 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.

Synonyms

• (city): Proskuriv, Proskurov (historical)
• (province): Khmelnytskyi Oblast
• (province): Proskuriv Oblast (historical)

Translations

city

• Belarusian: Хмяльніцкі (be) (Xmjalʹnícki) m 
• Polish: Chmielnicki (pl) m

• Russian: Хмельницкий (ru) (Xmelʹníckij) m 
• Ukrainian: Хмельницький (uk) (Xmelʹnýcʹkyj) m