Dnipro

English

The Dnipro basin from space, highlighting the numerous reservoirs created during the Soviet era by hydroelectric dams

The city of Dnipro within Ukraine, surrounded by its oblast

Etymology

From Ukrainian Дніпро́ (Dnipró) and earlier Днѣпръ (Dnipr), from Old East Slavic Дънѣпръ (Dŭněprŭ), from Proto-Slavic *Dъněprъ, from Scythian/Old Ossetic (Sarmatian) *Dānu Apara ("Far River") or *Dānapr (“Deep River”). The former derivation would pair it with the Dnister (“Near River”), while the latter would refer to its lack of fords. Doublet of Dnieper and Danasper. As a city, originally a clipping of Dnipropetrovsk, formally adopted as the town's name in 2016 as part of general decommunization of placenames. Its oblast has not yet followed suit because it is mentioned by name in the Ukrainian constitution.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɪˈproʊ/, /niˈproʊ/, /ˈni.proʊ/, /ˈnɪ.proʊ/
• IPA^(key): /dniːˈprəʊ/, /ˈdnɪ.prə/

Proper noun

Dnipro

1. A major East European river which flows south through Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine into the Black Sea.
2. A city, the administrative centre of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, on the river.
3. Clipping of Dnipropetrovsk, an oblast of Ukraine.

Usage notes

Formerly, the more common English name of this river was Dnieper, from the French form of the Russian name of the river. Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, nearly all Western media began adopting the Ukrainian form of the name. Alternatively, the name can be used to distinguish the lower stretches of the river through Ukraine, as opposed to its upper reaches in Russia and Belarus.

Synonyms

• (river): Borysthenes, Slavutych, Slavutich, Danasper, Danapris (historical); Dnieper
• (city): Dnipropetrovsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Dnipro-Petrovske, Dnipro-Petrovs’ke, Sicheslav, Novorossiysk, Katerynoslav, Yekaterinoslav (historical)

Related terms

• Dniester

Translations

river

• Armenian: Դնեպր (hy) (Dnepr)
• Belarusian: Дняпро́ m (Dnjapró)
• Bulgarian: Дне́пър m (Dnépǎr)
• Catalan: Dnièper m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 第聂伯河 (zh) (Dìnièbó hé)

• Crimean Tatar: Özü
• Czech: Dněpr (cs) m
• Danish: Dnepr
• Finnish: Dnepr (fi)
• French: Dniepr (fr) f
• Georgian: დნეპრი (dneṗri)
• German: Dnjepr (de) m
• Greek: Δνείπερος (el) m (Dneíperos)

  Ancient: Βορυσθένης (Borusthénēs), Δάναπρις (Dánapris)

• Hebrew: דנייפר
• Hungarian: Dnyeper (hu), Dnyipro (hu)
• Italian: Nipro m
• Japanese: ドニエプル川 (Doniepuru-gawa)
• Korean: 드네프르 강 (deunepeureu gang)
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• Latin: Danaper m, Borysthenēs m
• Lithuanian: Dniepras
• Macedonian: Дне́пар m (Dnépar)
• Nogai: Узу (Uzu)
• Old East Slavic: Дънѣпръ m (Dŭněprŭ)
• Old Norse: Nepr f
• Ottoman Turkish: اوزی (özi)
• Persian: دنیپر (denipr, denyeper)
• Polish: Dniepr (pl) m
• Portuguese: Dnieper m, Dniepre m, Borístenes m
• Russian: Днепр (ru) m (Dnepr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Дњепар m

  Roman: Dnjepar (sh) m

• Slovak: Dneper m
• Swedish: Dnepr (sv) c
• Turkish: Dinyeper, Özi
• Ukrainian: Дніпро́ (uk) m (Dnipró), Дніпр m (Dnipr)
• Yiddish: דניעפּער (dnyeper)

city

• Armenian: Դնեպրոպետրովսկ (hy) (Dnepropetrovsk)
• Belarusian: Днепрапятро́ўск m (Dnjeprapjatróŭsk)
• Bulgarian: Днепропетро́вск m (Dnepropetróvsk)
• Danish: Dnepropetrovsk
• French: Dnipropetrovsk (fr), Dnipro (fr)
• Georgian: დნეპროპეტროვსკი (dneṗroṗeṭrovsḳi)
• Greek: Ντνιπροπετρόφσκ (el) (Ntnipropetrófsk)
• Kazakh: Днепропетровск (Dnepropetrovsk)
• Kyrgyz: Днепропетровск (Dnepropetrovsk)
• Macedonian: Днипро (Dnipro), Днепар (Dnepar)
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• Polish: Dniepropetrowsk (pl) m, Dniepr (pl)
• Portuguese: Dnepropetrovsk f, Dnipropetrovsk f
• Russian: Днепропетро́вск (ru) m (Dnepropetróvsk), Днепр (ru) m (Dnepr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Дњепропетровск m

  Roman: Dnjepropetrovsk m

• Turkish: Dnipro
• Ukrainian: Дніпропетро́вськ (uk) m (Dnipropetróvsʹk), Дніпро́ (uk) m (Dnipró)

Anagrams

• drop in, drop-in

References

• “Dnipro”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Dnipro”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.