Khmelnytskyi
English
editAlternative forms
edit- Khmelnytsky, Khmel’nyts’ky, Khmelnytskyy, Khmel’nyts’kyy
- Khmelnitskiy, Khmel’nitskiy, Khmelnitsky, Khmel’nitsky
Etymology
editFrom Ukrainian Хмельни́цький (Xmelʹnýcʹkyj), after the Ukrainian Cossack Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Derived from хміль (xmilʹ, “hops, humulus”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editKhmelnytskyi
- A city, raion, and oblast of Ukraine
- Khmelnytskyi province (oblast), in south-eastern Ukraine.
- 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.
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