Kaliningrad

English

Location of Kaliningrad (Kaliningrad Oblast)

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Калинингра́д (Kaliningrád); named for Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈlɪnɪŋˌɡɹæd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Kaliningrad

2. An oblast or federal subject of Russia; an exclave on the Baltic Sea, between Poland and Lithuania.
4. A city, the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, formerly called Königsberg.
   • 2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 47:

     As a second-year student at Kharkiv University, I took a summer job as a conductor of the train that ran from Novorossiysk on the Russian Black Sea coast to Kaliningrad in the Baltics - a 48-hour journey via Kharkiv, from where the train originated.

Synonyms

• (from German) Königsberg
• (from Polish) Królewiec

Translations

Kaliningrad — see also Königsberg

• Arabic: كَالِينِينْغْرَاد f (kaliningrād), كَالِينِينْغْرَاد f (kalininḡrād)
• Armenian: Կալինինգրադ (hy) (Kaliningrad)
• Azerbaijani: Kalininqrad
• Belarusian: Калінінгра́д m (Kalininhrád), Караляве́ц m (Karaljavjéc) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: কালিনিনগ্রাদ (kaliningrad)
• Bulgarian: Кали́нинград m (Kalíningrad)
• Burmese: ကာလင်နင်ဂရတ် (kalangnangga.rat)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加里寧格勒 / 加里宁格勒 (Jiālǐnínggélè)

• Czech: Kaliningrad m, Královec (cs) m
• Danish: Kaliningrad, Königsberg (pre-1945 period)
• Dutch: Kaliningrad n
• Esperanto: Kaliningrado
• Estonian: Kaliningrad (et)
• Finnish: Kaliningrad (fi)
• French: Kaliningrad (fr) m
• Georgian: კალინინგრადი (ḳaliningradi)
• German: Kaliningrad (de) n, Königsberg (de) n (dated)
• Greek: Καλίνινγκραντ (el) (Kalíningkrant)
• Hebrew: קלינינגרד f (kaliningrád)
• Hindi: कालिनिनग्राद m (kālininagrād)
• Hungarian: Kalinyingrád (hu)
• Icelandic: Kalíníngrad
• Italian: Kaliningrad (it) m
• Japanese: カリーニングラード (Kariningurādo)
• Kannada: ಕಲಿನಿನ್‍ಗ್ರಾಡ್ (kalinin‍grāḍ)
• Kazakh: Калининград (Kaliniñrad)
• Korean: 칼리닌그라드 (ko) (Kallinin'geuradeu)
• Kyrgyz: Калининград (Kaliningrad)
• Latvian: Kaļiņingrada f, Karaļauči, Kēnigsberga
• Limburgish: Kaliningrad
• Lithuanian: Kaliningradas m, Karaliaučius m
• Macedonian: Кали́нинград m (Kalíningrad)
• Malayalam: കലിനിൻഗ്രാഡ് (kaliniṉgrāḍŭ)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Калининград (Kaliningrad)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Kaliningrad n

  Nynorsk: Kaliningrad n

• Persian: کالینینگراد (kâliningrâd)
• Polish: Królewiec (pl) m, Kaliningrad (pl) m (former)
• Portuguese: Kaliningrado m
• Romanian: Kaliningrad
• Russian: Калинингра́д (ru) m (Kaliningrád)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Калињинград m, Краљевиц m

  Latin: Kalinjingrad m, Kraljevic m

• Slovak: Kaliningrad m, Kráľovec m
• Slovene: Kaliningrad m, Kraljevec m
• Spanish: Kaliningrado (es) m
• Swedish: Kaliningrad (sv) c, Königsberg (sv) (dated)
• Tajik: Калининград (Kaliningrad)
• Tamil: கலினின்கிராத் (kaliṉiṉkirāt)
• Telugu: కాలినిన్గ్రాడ్ (kāliningrāḍ)
• Thai: คาลินินกราด (kaa-lí-nin-gràat)
• Turkish: Kaliningrad
• Ukrainian: Калінінгра́д m (Kalininhrád), Королевець m (Korolevecʹ)
• Urdu: کیلننگراڈ (keliningrāḍ)
• Uzbek: Kaliningrad
• Yiddish: קאַלינינגראַד (kaliningrad)

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Калинингра́д (Kaliningrád).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈliːniːnɡʁaːt/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Hyphenation: Ka‧li‧nin‧grad

Proper noun

Kaliningrad n (proper noun, genitive Kaliningrads or (optionally with an article) Kaliningrad)

1. Kaliningrad (an oblast or federal subject of Russia; an exclave on the Baltic Sea, between Poland and Lithuania)
2. a city, the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia; formerly located in East Prussia and called Königsberg

Declension

Declension of Kaliningrad [sg-only, neuter, toponym]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	das	Kaliningrad
genitive	des	Kaliningrads, Kaliningrad1
dative	dem	Kaliningrad
accusative	das	Kaliningrad

¹Optionally with an article.

Italian

Alternative forms

• Kaliningrado, Caliningrado (rare)

Etymology

Internationalism: Transliteration of Russian Калининград (Kaliningrad).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˌli.ninˈɡrad/
• Rhymes: -ad

Proper noun

Kaliningrad m

1. Kaliningrad (an oblast or federal subject of Russia; an exclave on the Baltic Sea, between Poland and Lithuania)
2. Kaliningrad (a city, the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, formerly called Königsberg)

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Kaliningrad

1. Kaliningrad (an oblast or federal subject of Russia; an exclave on the Baltic Sea, between Poland and Lithuania)
2. Kaliningrad (a city, the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, formerly called Königsberg)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Kaliningrad

1. Kaliningrad (an oblast or federal subject of Russia; an exclave on the Baltic Sea, between Poland and Lithuania)
2. Kaliningrad (a city, the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, formerly called Königsberg)

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Russian Кали́нин (Kalínin)

Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos

Proto-Balto-Slavic *gárdas

Proto-Slavic *gȏrdъ

Old Church Slavonic градъ (gradŭ)bor.

Russian град (grad)

Russian Калинингра́д (Kaliningrád)bor.

Polish Kaliningrad

Borrowed from Russian Калинингра́д (Kaliningrád).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.liˈɲiŋ.ɡrat/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iŋɡrat
• Syllabification: Ka‧li‧nin‧grad

Proper noun

Kaliningrad m inan

1. Kaliningrad (an oblast or federal subject of Russia; an exclave on the Baltic Sea, between Poland and Lithuania)
2. Kaliningrad (a city, the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, formerly called Königsberg)

   Synonym: Królewiec

Declension

Declension of Kaliningrad

	singular
nominative	Kaliningrad
genitive	Kaliningradu
dative	Kaliningradowi
accusative	Kaliningrad
instrumental	Kaliningradem
locative	Kaliningradzie
vocative	Kaliningradzie

Derived terms

adjective

• kaliningradzki

nouns

• kaliningradczyk
• kaliningradka

Further reading

• “Kaliningrad”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)

Turkish

Etymology

From Russian Калинингра́д (Kaliningrád).

Proper noun

Kaliningrad

1. Kaliningrad (an oblast or federal subject of Russia; an exclave on the Baltic Sea, between Poland and Lithuania)
2. Kaliningrad (a city, the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, formerly called Königsberg)

Declension

Declension of Kaliningrad

	singular
nominative	Kaliningrad
accusative	Kaliningrad'ı
dative	Kaliningrad'a
locative	Kaliningrad'da
ablative	Kaliningrad'dan
genitive	Kaliningrad'ın