Khmelnytskyi

//k(ə)mɛlˈnɪtski// name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A city, raion, and oblast of Ukraine.
  2. 2
    A surname from Ukrainian
  3. 3
    Khmelnytskyi raion in Khmelnytskyi oblast
  4. 4
    Khmelnytskyi oblast, in south-eastern Ukraine.
  5. 5
    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.

Synonyms

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khmelnytskyi oblastproskurivproskurivproskuriv oblastproskurov

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

A transliteration of Ukrainian Хмельницький (Xmelʹnycʹkyj)

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