Zaporizhia

English

Alternative forms

• Zaporizhzhya, Zaporizhzhia

Etymology

From the historical region of the same name, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ukrainian Запорі́жжя (Zaporížžja, “place beyond the rapids”), from за (za, “beyond”) + поро́ги (poróhy, “rapids”), plural of порі́г (poríh, “river rapid, threshold”). Compare Russian Запоро́жье (Zaporóžʹje).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Zapo‧rizh‧ia

Proper noun

Zaporizhia

1. An industrial city on the Dnieper river of south-central Ukraine, administrative centre of Zaporizhia province.
2. Zaporizhia province (oblast), in south-eastern Ukraine.
3. (historical) The region “beyond the rapids” in the lower reach of the river Dnieper in Ukraine, base of the Zaporozhian Cossacks.

Synonyms

• Zaporozhe, Zaporozhye, Zaporozhie
• Aleksandrovsk, Aleksandrovs’k, Alexandrovsk (historical)
• (province): Zaporizhia Oblast, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Zaporizhzhya Oblast

Related terms

• Zaporozhian Cossacks (historical)
• Zaporozhets

Translations

city

• Armenian: Զապորոժիե (hy) (Zaporožie)
• Belarusian: Запаро́жжа n (Zaparóžža)
• Bulgarian: Запоро́жие n (Zaporóžie)
• Czech: Záporoží (cs) n
• Danish: Zaporizjzja, Saporosje
• French: Zaporijia (fr)
• Georgian: ზაპოროჟიე (zaṗorožie)
• German: Saporischschja n, Saporoschschje n
• Kazakh: Запорожье (Zaporoje)
• Kyrgyz: Запорожье (Zaporojye)
• Lithuanian: Zaporožė f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: Zaporoże (pl) n
• Portuguese: Zaporozhye f
• Russian: Запоро́жье n (Zaporóžʹje)
• Rusyn: Запоріжя (Zaporižja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Запорожје n

  Roman: Zaporožje

• Slovak: Záporožie n
• Tatar: Запорожье (Zaporoj’ye)
• Ukrainian: Запорі́жжя (uk) n (Zaporížžja)