Niemen

See also: niemen

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈniːmən/

Proper noun

Niemen

1. Alternative form of Neman (a river in Eastern Europe)
   • 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 70:

     […] two Russian armies would advance into East Prussia, one westward from the Niemen, the other northward from the Narew, with the object of encircling and immobilizing all enemy forces there.

Anagrams

• Meinen, enmein

Finnish

Proper noun

Niemen

1. genitive singular of Niemi

Anagrams

• nimeen

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Не́ман (Néman), from Lithuanian Nemunas, of uncertain origin, possibly from an Old Lithuanian word meaning "damp, wet".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɲɛ.mɛn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛmɛn
• Syllabification: Nie‧men

Proper noun

Niemen m inan

1. Neman (a river in Belarus, Lithuania and Russia)

Declension

Declension of Niemen

	singular
nominative	Niemen
genitive	Niemna
dative	Niemnowi
accusative	Niemen
instrumental	Niemnem
locative	Niemnie
vocative	Niemnie

Further reading

• Niemen in Polish dictionaries at PWN