English Explanatory Dictionary

Lviv

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A city, the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast, in western Ukraine.
  2. A miskrada of the raion of the same name of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
  3. An oblast in western Ukraine, established in December 1939.
  4. An urban hromada of Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine, established in July 2020.
  5. A raion of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine, established in July 2020.
  6. A railway station in Lviv, Ukraine, opened in 1904
  7. Numerous villages in Ukraine:
  8. A village in Pervomaisk Raion, Mykolaiv Oblast.
  9. A village in Kryvyi Rih Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

Pronunciation

/ləˈviːv/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Lviv.wav

Word forms

Lviv L'viv L'vov Lvov

Etymology

From Ukrainian Львів (Lʹviv), from Old East Slavic Лвовъ (Lvovŭ) or Львовъ (Lĭvovŭ), originally named after the founder's son, Левъ (Levŭ), Lev I of Galicia (ca. 1228 – ca. 1301). Compare Belarusian Львоў (Lʹvow), Polish Lwów, Russian Львов (Lʹvov), Slovak Ľvov, Middle Armenian Իլով (Ilov), Armeno-Kipchak Իլօվ (Ilōv). Also compare Old East Slavic Льва городъ (Lĭva gorodŭ, literally “Lev's city”), Greek Λεόπολις (Leópolis) or Λεοντόπολις (Leontópolis), Latin Leopolis and German Lemberg.

Synonyms

L'vov Lvov Lwów Lwow L'wow Lemberg Leopolis Lemberg region Lviv Oblast

Translations

Albanian: Lvivi Amharic: ልቪቭ Arabic: لْفِيف Arabic: لْفُوف Arabic: لفيف Aragonese: Lviv Armenian: Լվով Armenian: Իլով Armenian: Իլվով Middle Armenian: Իլով Armeno-Kipchak: Իլօվ Asturian: Lviv Bashkir: Илбау Basque: Lviv Belarusian: Львоў Belarusian: Льво́ўская во́бласць Bengali: লিভিউ Bulgarian: Лвов Carpathian Rusyn: Львів Catalan: Lviv Chinese Mandarin: 利沃夫 Crimean Tatar: İlbav Czech: Lvov Danish: Lviv Dutch: Lviv Esperanto: Lvivo Farefare: Liviu Farefare: Leopoli Finnish: Lviv French: Lviv Galician: Lviv Georgian: ლვოვი German: Lemberg German: Lwiw German: Lembärsch Bavarian German: Lemberg Greek: Λβιβ Greek: Λεόπολις Greek: Λεοντόπολις Ancient Greek: Λεόπολις Hebrew: לְבוֹב Hindi: ल्विव Hungarian: Lviv Hungarian: Ilyvó Hungarian: Lemberg Icelandic: Lvív Italian: Leopoli Italian: Lʼviv Japanese: リヴィウ Karaim: İlov Kashubian: Lwew Korean: 리비프 Central Kurdish: لڤیڤ
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