Khmelnytskyi

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Pronunciation 1.4 Proper noun 1.4.1 Synonyms 1.4.2 Translations

[edit] English

[edit] Alternative spellings

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

[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Khmel‧nyts‧kyi

[edit] Proper noun

Singular Khmelnytskyi

Plural -

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.

[edit] Synonyms

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

[edit] Translations

• Russian: Хмельницкий ru(ru) (Xmel’níckij) m.
• Ukrainian: Хмельницький uk(uk) (Xmel’nýc’kyj) m.