Khmelnytskyi

Khmelnytskyi

English

Khmelnytskyi Oblast

Khmelnytskyi Raion

Alternative forms

• Khmelnytsky, Khmel’nyts’ky, Khmelnytskyy, Khmel’nyts’kyy
• Khmelnitskiy, Khmel’nitskiy, Khmelnitsky, Khmel’nitsky

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k(ə)melˈlnɪtski/, /x(ə)melˈlnɪtski/
• Hyphenation: Khmel‧nyts‧kyi

Proper noun

Khmelnytskyi

1. A city and raion and oblast of Ukraine
2. Khmelnytskyi province (oblast), in south-eastern Ukraine.
3. 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

• (city): Proskuriv, Proskurov (historical)

Translations

city

Belarusian: Хмяльні́цкі m (Xmjalʹnícki) Hungarian: Hmelnickij Polish: Chmielnicki m Russian: Хмельни́цкий (ru) m (Xmelʹníckij) Slovak: Chmeľnyckyj m Ukrainian: Хмельни́цький (uk) m (Xmelʹnýcʹkyj)

oblast

Belarusian: Хмяльні́цкая во́бласць f (Xmjalʹníckaja vóblascʹ) Polish: Obwód chmielnicki m Russian: Хмельни́цкая о́бласть (ru) f (Xmelʹníckaja óblastʹ) Ukrainian: Хмельни́цька о́бласть f (Xmelʹnýcʹka óblastʹ)