Chernobyl

See also: Chernóbyl

English

Alternative forms

• Chornobyl (as transliterated from Ukrainian)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Russian Черно́быль (Černóbylʹ), from черно́быль (černóbylʹ, “mugwort”). Compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ukrainian Чорно́биль (Čornóbylʹ), from чорно́биль (čornóbylʹ, “mugwort”), from чо́рне n (čórne, “black”) + билля́ (bylljá, “grass blades or stalks”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃə(ː)ˈnɒbəl/, /tʃə(ː)ˈnəʊbəl/
• IPA^(key): /tʃɚˈnoʊbəl/
• Rhymes: -ɒbəl, -əʊbəl

Proper noun

Chernobyl

1. An abandoned city in northern Ukraine, known as the site of a nuclear accident.
   • 1991 July 26, “Think Tank on the Efficient Energy Trail”, in Christian Science Monitor:

     A couple of oil shocks, a Chernobyl meltdown, and a Gulf War later, his basic message – the need to emphasize efficiency and renewable resources over oil and nuclear power – is still a minority view

Derived terms

• Chernobyl syndrome
• chernobylite

Noun

Chernobyl (plural Chernobyls)

1. (by extension) A major nuclear-energy accident.
   • 1999 May 6, Terence Scully, “When cell phones kill our brain waves, we will worry less”, in The Record (Kitchener, Ont.):

     The effects of a Chernobyl disaster in my community would probably be barely noticeable.

   • 2007 September 7, “Imagining a World Without Humans”, in NPR_TalkNation:

     So those would be a lot of Chernobyls that the ecosystem would have to deal with.

   • 2010 March 10, Ben Garcia, “Many Kuwaitis yet to be convinced on nuke energy”, in Kuwait Times:

     It has to be handled properly with great accuracy and no room for mistakes, because if we do have like a Chernobyl catastrophe, God forbid, it could wipe out our entire people.

Translations

city in Ukraine

• Arabic: تْشِيرْنُوبِيل m (tširnūbil)
• Armenian: Չեռնոբիլ (Čʻeṙnobil)
• Basque: Txernobyl
• Belarusian: Чарно́быль m (Čarnóbylʹ)
• Bulgarian: Черно́бил (Černóbil)
• Catalan: Txernòbil
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 切爾諾貝利／切尔诺贝利 (zh) (Qiè'ěrnuòbèilì), 切尔诺贝利 (zh) (Qiè'ěrnuòbèilì)

• Crimean Tatar: Çornobıl
• Czech: Černobyl m
• Danish: Tjernobyl
• Esperanto: Ĉernobilo
• Estonian: Tšornobõl
• Finnish: Tšernobyl (fi)
• French: Tchernobyl (fr) m
• Georgian: ჩერნობილი (černobili)
• German: Tschernobyl (de) n, Tschornobyl n
• Greek: Τσερνομπίλ (el) (Tsernompíl)
• Hebrew: צ׳רנוביל
• Hindi: चेरनोबिल (cernobil)
• Hungarian: Csernobil (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: Černobyl' m
• Japanese: チョルノーブィリ (Chorunōbuiri), チェルノブイリ (Cherunobuiri)
• Korean: 체르노빌 (Chereunobil)
• Lithuanian: Černobylis (lt)
• Macedonian: Черно́бил m (Černóbil)
• Marathi: चेरनोबिल (cernobil)
• Norwegian: Tsjernobyl
• Norwegian Nynorsk: Tsjernobyl
• Polish: Czarnobyl (pl) m
• Portuguese: Chernobyl m, Chernobil m, Tchernóbil
• Russian: Черно́быль (ru) m (Černóbylʹ)
• Samogitian: Černuobīlis
• Serbo-Croatian: Чернобиљ m, Чернобил m, Černobilj m, Černobil m
• Slovak: Černobyľ m
• Slovene: Černobil m
• Spanish: Chernóbyl m, Chernóbil (es)
• Swedish: Tjernobyl (sv)
• Turkish: Çernobil
• Ukrainian: Чорно́биль (uk) m (Čornóbylʹ)
• Uyghur: چېرنوبىل (chërnobil)
• Yiddish: טשערנאָבל (tshernobl)

See also

• Chernobyl on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Srebrenica, Vietnam

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Chernobyl f

1. Alternative spelling of Chernobil