English Explanatory Dictionary

Petrograd

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Former name of Saint Petersburg, from 1914 (when Russia entered World War I) to 1924 (when Lenin died), a major city in Russia.
  2. A region of Saint Petersburg city, Saint Petersburg, Northwest Russia district, European Russia, Russia.

Word forms

Petrograd

Etymology

From Russian Петрогра́д (Petrográd). The portion Петро (Petro, “Petros”), from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros) and German Peter, from Dutch Pieter, from Sankt Pieter (“Saint Peter”), from Apostle Peter and Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia and then Emperor. The portion град (grad, “city”), from German Burg (“city, castle”), from Dutch burch (“town, fortress”). Петрогра́д (Petrográd, “Petrograd”) from German Sankt Petersburg (“Санкт-Петербургъ (Sankt-Peterburg)”), from Dutch Sankt-Pieter-Burch (“Сант-Питер-Бурхъ (Sant-Piter-Burx)”), the Russian city was named in Dutch instead of Russian by Peter the Great.

Synonyms

Leningrad Saint Petersburg Sankt Petersburg Saint Petersburgh

Translations

Albanian: Petrograd Arabic: بِيتْرُوغْرَاد Armenian: Պետրոգրադ Azerbaijani: Petroqrad Basque: Petrograd Belarusian: Петрагра́д Bengali: পেত্রোগ্রাদ Bulgarian: Петрогра́д Catalan: Petrograd Chinese Cantonese: 彼得格勒 Chinese Mandarin: 彼得格勒 Czech: Petrohrad Danish: Petrograd Dutch: Petrograd Esperanto: Petrogrado Estonian: Petrograd Finnish: Pietari Finnish: Petrograd French: Pétrograd Georgian: პეტროგრადი German: Petrograd Greek: Πετρογκράντ Gujarati: પેટ્રોગ્રાડ Hindi: पेत्रोग्राद Hungarian: Petrográd Icelandic: Petrógrad Ido: Petrograd Italian: Pietrogrado Japanese: ペトログラード Kannada: ಪೆಟ್ರೊಗ್ರಾಡ್ Kazakh: Петроград Korean: 페트로그라드 Latvian: Petrograda Lithuanian: Petrogradas Macedonian: Петроград Malayalam: പെട്രോഗാർഡ് Marathi: पेट्रोग्राड Norwegian Bokmål: Petrograd Norwegian Nynorsk: Petrograd Persian: پطروگراد Polish: Piotrogród
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