Kremlin

See also: kremlin

English

Kremlin (1)

Etymology

Special use of kremlin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɛmlɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

the Kremlin

1. The Moscow Kremlin; a fortified complex in Moscow, Russia that serves as the official residence of the President of the Russian Federation.
2. (metonymic) The Russian or Soviet government.

   Synonym: Moscow

   The Kremlin announced plans to increase funding for museums and the arts.

   • 2024 September 19, Fred Weir, “Why Putin’s nuclear saber-rattling on Ukraine sounds different this time”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

     Over the course of the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin has drawn several “red lines” – with ostentatious references to Russia’s huge strategic nuclear arsenal – only to seemingly do nothing when these lines are crossed by Ukraine or its Western backers.

Derived terms

• Kremlinism
• Kremlinist
• Kremlinite
• Kremlinologist
• Kremlinology

Related terms

• Le Kremlin-Bicêtre

Translations

the Moscow Kremlin

• Albanian: Kremlin m, Kremlini m (definite)
• Arabic: الْكْرِمْلِين m (al-k(e)remlin) (definite)
• Armenian: Կրեմլ (hy) (Kreml)
• Azerbaijani: Kreml
• Belarusian: Крэмль m (Kremlʹ)
• Bengali: ক্রেমলিন (kremolin)
• Bulgarian: Кре́мъл m (Krémǎl)
• Burmese: ကရင်မလင် (ka.rangma.lang)
• Catalan: Kremlin m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 克里姆林 (Kèlǐmǔlín), 克里姆林宮 (zh) (Kèlǐmǔlín gōng), 克宮 / 克宫 (zh) (Kègōng) (short)

• Czech: Kreml (cs) m
• Danish: Kreml
• Dutch: Kremlin (nl) n
• Esperanto: Kremlo
• Estonian: Kreml (et)
• Faroese: Kreml n
• Finnish: Kreml (fi)
• French: Kremlin (fr) m
• Georgian: კრემლი (ḳremli)
• German: Kreml (de) m
• Greek: Κρεμλίνο (el) m (Kremlíno)
• Hebrew: קְרֶמְלִין m (kremlin)
• Hindi: क्रेमलिन (kremlin)
• Hungarian: Kreml (hu)
• Icelandic: Kreml
• Irish: Creimil f
• Italian: Cremlino (it) m
• Japanese: クレムリ (Kuremuri), クレムリン (Kuremurin)
• Kazakh: Кремль (Kreml)
• Khmer: ក្រឹមឡាំង (krəmlang)
• Korean: 크렘린 (Keuremnin), 크레믈린 (Keuremeullin)
• Kyrgyz: Кремль (Kreml)
• Latvian: Kremlis m
• Lithuanian: Kremlius m
• Macedonian: Кремљ m (Kremlj)
• Malay: Kremlin
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Кремль (Kremlʹ)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Kreml m

  Nynorsk: Kreml m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: کِرِمْلین (keremlin)

• Polish: Kreml (pl) m
• Portuguese: Kremlin (pt) m
• Romanian: Kremlin
• Russian: Кремль (ru) m (Kremlʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Кремљ m

  Roman: Kremlj m

• Slovak: Kremeľ m
• Slovene: Kremelj m
• Spanish: Kremlin m
• Swedish: Kreml (sv) n
• Tagalog: Kremlin
• Tajik: Кремл (Kreml)
• Thai: เครมลิน (kreem-lin)
• Turkish: Kremlin
• Turkmen: Kreml
• Ukrainian: Кремль m (Kremlʹ)
• Urdu: کْریمْلِن (kremlin), کِریمْلِن (kiremlin)
• Uyghur: كرېمل (krëml)
• Uzbek: Kreml
• Vietnamese: điện Kremli
• Welsh: Kremlin m
• Yiddish: קרעמלין (kremlin), קרעמל (kreml)

the Russian or Soviet government

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 克里姆林宮 (zh) (Kèlǐmǔlín gōng)

• Danish: Kreml
• Georgian: კრემლი (ḳremli)
• German: Kreml (de) m
• Hindi: क्रेमलिन (kremlin)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Kreml m

  Nynorsk: Kreml m

• Polish: Kreml (pl) m
• Russian: Кремль (ru) m (Kremlʹ)
• Swedish: Kreml (sv) n

See also

• Politburo (also a proper noun sense from a common noun sense, and also often a metonym for the senior Soviet leadership)

Anagrams

• Minkler

Finnish

Proper noun

Kremlin

1. genitive singular of Kreml

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁɛm.lɛ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Proper noun

Kremlin m

1. Kremlin (the Moscow Kremlin)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾɛm.lin/

Proper noun

Kremlin m

1. Kremlin (the Moscow Kremlin)
2. (metonymic) Kremlin (the Russian or Soviet governments)

   Synonym: Moscovo / Moscou

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾemlin/ [ˈkɾẽm.lĩn], /ˈkɾenlin/ [ˈkɾẽn.lĩn]
• Rhymes: -emlin, -enlin
• Syllabification: Krem‧lin

Proper noun

Kremlin m

1. Kremlin (the Moscow Kremlin)

Further reading

• “Kremlin”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024