Nikolaev

English

Etymology

From Russian Никола́ев (Nikolájev, “Mykolaiv”).

Proper noun

Nikolaev

1. Alternative form of Mykolaiv.
   • 2022 March 4, John Branch, “He Won an Olympic Silver for Ukraine. Now He’s Hiding in a Kyiv Garage.”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     He is worried for his parents, who live in Mykolaiv, a port city on the Black Sea where Abramenko was raised. […] “Fighting is already underway in Nikolaev,” Abramenko wrote, using an alternate spelling for the city.