English Explanatory Dictionary

Zaporozhye

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Alternative form of Zaporizhzhia:
  2. An industrial city, the administrative centre of Zaporizhzhia urban hromada, Zaporizhzhia Raion and Zaporizhzhia Oblast, in south-central Ukraine, on the River Dnipro.
  3. A raion of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine.
  4. An oblast in southeast Ukraine, also illicitly claimed by Russia.
  5. A geographic region south-central Ukraine, “beyond the rapids” in the lower reaches of the Dnipro River, base of the Zaporozhian Cossacks.

Word forms

Zaporozhye Zaporozhe Zaporozhie

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Запоро́жье (Zaporóžʹje), the Russian form of Ukrainian Запорі́жжя (Zaporížžja).

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