Днепр

Russian

Alternative forms

• Днѣпръ (Dněpr) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic Дънѣпръ (Dŭněprŭ), from Proto-Slavic *Dъněprъ, from Scythian/Old Ossetic (Sarmatian) *dānu apara "the far river" or *Dānapr (“the deep river”), the first element being from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰánwati << *dʰénh₂- ~ dʰn̥h₂-u- << Proto-Indo-European *dʰenh₂- (“to flow”).

Compare with Днестр (Dnestr), whose name probably means "the close river."

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dʲnʲepr]

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Днепр • (Dnepr) m inan (genitive Днепра́)

1. Dnieper (a river in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine)
2. Dnipro (a city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine)

Declension

Declension of Днепр (inan sg-only masc-form hard-stem accent-b) 

	singular
nominative	Дне́пр Dnépr
genitive	Днепра́ Dneprá
dative	Днепру́ Dneprú
accusative	Дне́пр Dnépr
instrumental	Днепро́м Dnepróm
prepositional	Днепре́ Dnepré

Derived terms

• Днепропетро́вск (Dnepropetróvsk)
• Дне́продзержи́нск (Dnéprodzeržínsk)

References

• Mallory, J.P. and Victor H. Mair. The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West. London: Thames and Hudson, 2000. p. 106
• Abajev, V. I. (1949) Осетинский язык и фольклор I [Ossetian Language and Folklore I]‎^[1] (in Russian), Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 236