Pripyat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A river in Eastern Europe, flowing east through Ukraine and Belarus, draining into the Dnieper.
  2. An abandoned city and ghost town in northern Ukraine, near the border with Belarus.

Word forms

Pripyat Pripet Prypiat

Etymology

Transliteration of Russian При́пять (Prípjatʹ) or Ukrainian При́п'ять (Prýpʺjatʹ).

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