Khmelnytskyi
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[edit] English
[edit] Alternative forms
- 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
Khmelnytskyi
- A city on the Dnieper in Ukraine, administrative centre of Dnipropetrovsk province (oblast).
- Khmelnytskyi province (oblast), in south-eastern Ukraine.
- 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) (Xmel’níckij) m.
- Ukrainian: Хмельницький (uk) (Xmel’nýc’kyj) m.
