English Explanatory Dictionary

Khmelnytskyi

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A city, raion, and oblast of Ukraine.
  2. Khmelnytskyi raion in Khmelnytskyi oblast
  3. Khmelnytskyi oblast, in south-eastern Ukraine.
  4. Bohdan Khmelnytsky (c. 1595–1657), a Ukrainian Cossack hetman who led an uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and signed the Treaty of Pereyaslav with Czar Alexis I of Russia.
name
  1. A surname from Ukrainian

Pronunciation

/k(ə)mɛlˈnɪtski/ /x(ə)mɛlˈnɪtski/

Word forms

Khmelnytskyi Khmelnytsky Khmel’nyts’ky Khmelnytskyy Khmel’nyts’kyy Khmelnitskiy Khmel’nitskiy Khmelnitsky Khmel’nitsky Chmelnitzki Chmielnicki Chmielnitsky Chmielnitzky Khmelnytskyis

Etymology

From Ukrainian Хмельни́цький (Xmelʹnýcʹkyj), after the Ukrainian Cossack Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Derived from хміль (xmilʹ, “hops, humulus”).

Synonyms

Proskuriv Proskurov
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