Vladimir

See also: Vladimír and Vladímir

English

Etymology

From Russian Влади́мир (Vladímir) and reinforced by Medieval Latin Vladimirus, name of several saints in the Eastern Orthodox Church, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old East Slavic Володимѣръ (Volodiměrŭ), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Church Slavonic Владимѣръ (Vladiměrŭ), from Proto-Slavic *Voldiměrъ (which see for more), equivalent to владь (vladĭ, “power”) (which is from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“be strong”)) and мѣръ (měrŭ, “great”), changed by folk etymology into миръ (mirŭ, “peace”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvlæd.ɪm.iə(ɹ)/

Proper noun

Vladimir

1. A male given name from Russian popular throughout the history of Slavic countries and societies, but rare as a name of English-speaking persons.
2. A city in the administrative centre of Vladimir Oblast, Russia.
3. An oblast of Russia.

Related terms

• transliterated Russian pet forms: Volodya, Vova
• English pet form: Vlad, Vlady

Translations

male given name

• Arabic: فْلَادِيمِير m (fladīmir)
• Armenian: Վլադիմիր (Vladimir)
• Belarusian: Уладзі́мер m (Uladzímjer)
• Bulgarian: Владимир m (Vladimir)
• Catalan: Vladimir
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 弗拉基米爾／弗拉基米尔 (zh) (Fúlājīmǐ'ěr), 弗拉基米尔 (zh) (Fúlājīmǐ'ěr)

• Chuvash: Улатимӗр (Ulat̬imĕr)
• Czech: Vladimír (cs) m
• Danish: Vladimir
• Dutch: Wladimir (nl)
• Esperanto: Vladimiro (eo)
• Finnish: Vladimir (fi)
• French: Vladimir (fr) m
• Galician: Vladimir
• Georgian: ვლადიმერ (vladimer)
• German: Wladimir (de) m
• Greek: Βλαδίμηρος (el) m (Vladímiros), Βλαντίμιρ m (Vlantímir) (of Russians)
• Hebrew: ולדימיר
• Hindi: व्लादिमिर m (vlādimir)
• Hungarian: Vladimír (hu)
• Inuktitut: ᕝᓛᑎᒥᕐ (vlaatimir)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: Vladimiro (it)
• Japanese: ヴラジーミル (Vurajīmiru)
• Korean: 블라디미르 (Beulladimireu)
• Latin: Vladimirus m
• Latvian: Vladimirs
• Lithuanian: Vladimiras
• Macedonian: Владимир m (Vladimir)
• Marathi: व्लादिमिर m (vlādimir)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: Владимѣръ m (Vladiměrŭ)

• Old East Slavic: Володимѣръ m (Volodiměrŭ)
• Persian: ولادیمیر
• Polish: Włodzimierz (pl) m, Władimir m (of Russians)
• Portuguese: Vladimiro m, Vladimir m, Vladmir m
• Romanian: Vladimir
• Russian: Влади́мир (ru) m (Vladímir)
• Serbo-Croatian: Владимир m, Vladimir m
• Slovak: Vladimír m
• Slovene: Vladimir (sl) m
• Spanish: Vladimiro (es) m, Vladímir m (of Russians)
• Thai: วลาดีมีร์ (wá-laa-dii-mii)
• Ukrainian: Володи́мир m (Volodýmyr)

Russian city

• Arabic: فْلَادِيمِير m (fladīmir)
• Armenian: Վլադիմիր (Vladimir)
• Belarusian: Уладзі́мір m (Uladzímir)
• Bulgarian: Владимир m (Vladimir)
• Catalan: Vladimir
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 弗拉基米爾／弗拉基米尔 (zh) (Fúlājīmǐ'ěr), 弗拉基米尔 (zh) (Fúlājīmǐ'ěr)

• Czech: Vladimir m
• Danish: Vladimir
• Dutch: Vladimir (nl)
• Finnish: Vladimir (fi)
• French: Vladimir (fr) m
• Georgian: ვლადიმირი (vladimiri)
• German: Wladimir (de) n
• Greek: Βλαντίμιρ m (Vlantímir)
• Hebrew: ולדימיר
• Hindi: व्लादिमिर m (vlādimir)
• Italian: Vladimir m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: ウラジーミル (Urajīmiru)
• Korean: 블라디미르 (Beulladimireu)
• Latin: Volodimiria f
• Latvian: Vladimira
• Lithuanian: Vladimiras
• Macedonian: Владимир m (Vladimir)
• Marathi: व्लादिमिर n (vlādimir)
• Persian: ولادیمیر
• Polish: Włodzimierz (pl) m
• Portuguese: Vladimiro m
• Romanian: Vladimir
• Russian: Влади́мир (ru) m (Vladímir)
• Serbo-Croatian: Владимир m, Vladimir m
• Slovak: Vladimír m
• Slovene: Vladimir (sl) m
• Spanish: Vladímir m
• Thai: วลาดีมีร์ (wá-laa-dii-mii)
• Ukrainian: Влади́мир m (Vladýmyr)

Volodymyr — see Volodymyr

See also

• Valdemar (Scandinavian)
• Waldemar, Woldemar (Germanic names), whence Latvian Voldemārs, Finnish Valto

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Azerbaijani

Proper noun

Vladimir

1. a male given name

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Cebuano

Etymology

From English Vladimir, from Russian Влади́мир (Vladímir).

Proper noun

Vladimir

1. a male given name from Russian