Запорожье

See also: Запорожје

Russian

Etymology

From за- (za-) +‎ поро́г (poróg) +‎ -ье (-ʹje).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [zəpɐˈroʐje]

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Proper noun

Запоро́жье • (Zaporóžʹje) n inan (genitive Запоро́жья, relational adjective запоро́жский)

1. Zaporizhzhia (an industrial city, the administrative centre of Zaporizhzhia urban hromada, Zaporizhzhia Raion and Zaporizhzhia Oblast, in south-central Ukraine, on the River Dnipro)

   Synonym: (before 1921) Александровск (Aleksandrovsk)

2. Zaporizhzhia (a raion of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine)
3. Zaporizhzhia (an oblast in southeast Ukraine, also illicitly claimed by Russia)
4. (historical) Zaporizhzhia (a geographic region south-central Ukraine, “beyond the rapids” in the lower reaches of the Dnipro River, base of the Zaporozhian Cossacks)

Declension

Declension of Запоро́жье (inan sg-only neut-form vowel-stem accent-a) 

	singular
nominative	Запоро́жье Zaporóžʹje
genitive	Запоро́жья Zaporóžʹja
dative	Запоро́жью Zaporóžʹju
accusative	Запоро́жье Zaporóžʹje
instrumental	Запоро́жьем Zaporóžʹjem
prepositional	Запоро́жье Zaporóžʹje

Pre-reform declension of Запоро́жье (inan sg-only neut-form vowel-stem accent-a) 

	singular
nominative	Запоро́жье Zaporóžʹje
genitive	Запоро́жья Zaporóžʹja
dative	Запоро́жью Zaporóžʹju
accusative	Запоро́жье Zaporóžʹje
instrumental	Запоро́жьемъ Zaporóžʹjem
prepositional	Запоро́жьѣ Zaporóžʹjě

Related terms

• запоро́жец m (zaporóžec), запорожка f (zaporožka)
• Запоро́жец (Zaporóžec)

Descendants

• → Chinese: 扎波羅熱 / 扎波罗热 (Zhābōluórè)
• → English: Zaporozhye
• → French: Zaporojié
• → German: Saporoschje

See also

• Сечь (Sečʹ)