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)mɛlˈnɪtski/, /x(ə)mɛlˈnɪtski/
• Hyphenation: Khmel‧nyts‧kyi

Proper noun

Khmelnytskyi

1. A city, raion, and oblast of Ukraine
2. Khmelnytskyi raion in Khmelnytskyi oblast
3. Khmelnytskyi oblast, in south-eastern Ukraine.
4. 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)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 赫梅利尼茨基 (Hèméilìnícíjī)

• Dutch: Chmelnytsky n
• Esperanto: Ĥmelnickijo
• French: Khmelnytskyï (fr)
• Greek: Χμελνίτσκι (el) n (Chmelnítski)
• Hungarian: Hmelnickij (hu)
• Japanese: フメリニツキー
• Korean: 흐멜니츠키 (Heumellicheuki)
• Marathi: ख्मेलनीचकीय (khmelnīckīy)
• Polish: Chmielnicki m
• Russian: Хмельни́цкий (ru) m (Xmelʹníckij)
• Slovak: Chmeľnyckyj m
• Ukrainian: Хмельни́цький (uk) m (Xmelʹnýcʹkyj)

oblast

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