Saint Petersburg

English

Alternative forms

• St. Petersburg, St Petersburg
• St. Petersburgh (obsolete)

Etymology

English translation of Russian Санкт-Петербу́рг (Sankt-Peterbúrg), from German Sankt Petersburg (“Saint Peter's City”), referring to Saint Peter the Apostle and alluding to its founder Tsar Peter the Great.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sənt ˈpiːtə(r)zˌbɜː(r)ɡ/

Proper noun

Saint Petersburg (Санкт-Петербург Sankt-Peterburg)

Saint Petersburg

1. A federal city of Russia, known between 1914 and 1924 as Petrograd and between 1924 and 1991 as Leningrad, and former capital of Russia (1713–1728, 1732–1918).
2. Alternative form of St. Petersburg, a city in Florida, United States.
3. An unincorporated community in Logan County, Colorado, United States.

Translations

city in Russia

• Abkhaz: Санқт-Петербург (Sankṭ-Ṗeṭerburg)
• Afrikaans: Sint Petersburg
• Albanian: Shën Petersburgu m
• Amharic: ሳንክት ፔቴርቡርግ (sankət peterburg)
• Arabic: سَانْت بُطْرُسْبُرْغ‎ m (sant buṭrusburḡ)
• Armenian: Սանկտ Պետերբուրգ (Sankt Peterburg)
• Azerbaijani: Sankt-Peterburq
• Bashkir: Санкт-Петербург (Sankt-Peterburg)
• Belarusian: Санкт-Пецярбу́рг m (Sankt-Pjecjarbúrh), Пецярбу́рг m (Pjecjarbúrh)
• Bulgarian: Санкт Петербу́рг m (Sankt Peterbúrg)
• Buryat: Саанкта-Петербүүргэ (Saankta-Pjetjerbüürge)
• Catalan: Sant Petersburg m
• Chechen: Петарбух (Petarbuχ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聖彼得堡 (zh), 圣彼得堡 (zh) (Shèng-Bǐdebǎo)

• Chuvash: Питӗрпурк (Pit̬ĕrp̬urk)
• Corsican: San Pietruburgu m, San Petruburgu m
• Czech: Sankt Petěrburg m, Petrohrad (cs) m
• Danish: Sankt Petersborg
• Dutch: Sint-Petersburg (nl)
• Erzya: Ине-Петрань ош (Ine-Petranʹ oš)
• Esperanto: Sankt-Peterburgo
• Estonian: Peterburi (et), Sankt-Peterburg (rare), Piiter (historical)
• Faroese: St. Pætursborg f, Sankta Pætursborg f
• Finnish: Pietari (fi)
• French: Saint-Pétersbourg (fr) m
• Georgian: სანქტ-პეტერბურგი (sankṭ-ṗeṭerburgi)
• German: Sankt Petersburg (de) n
• Greek: Αγία Πετρούπολη (el) f (Agía Petroúpoli)
• Hebrew: סנט פטרסבורג‎ (sent petersburg)
• Hindi: सेंट पीटर्सबर्ग (seṇṭ pīṭarsabarg)
• Hungarian: Szentpétervár (hu)
• Icelandic: Sankti Pétursborg f, Pétursborg f
• Indonesian: St. Petersburg
• Irish: Cathair Pheadair f, Brí Shan Pheadair f
• Italian: San Pietroburgo (it) m
• Japanese: サンクトペテルブルク (Sankuto-Peteruburuku)
• Kabardian: Бытырбыху (Bətərbəx°)
• Kalmyk: Санкт-Петербург (Sankt-Peterburg)
• Kannada: ಸೇಂಟ್ ಪೀಟರ್ಸ್‌ಬರ್ಗ್ (sēṇṭ pīṭars‌barg)
• Kazakh: Санкт-Петербург (Sankt-Peterbwrg), Сән-Питербор (Sän-Pïterbor)
• Komi-Permyak: Петыркар (Petyrkar)
• Komi-Zyrian: Петыркар (Petyrkar)
• Korean: 상트페테르부르크 (ko) (Sangteupetereubureukeu), 싼크뜨뻬쩨르부르그 (Ssankeutteuppejjereubureugeu) (North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: Санкт-Петербург (Sanqt-Peterburğ)
• Latin: Petropolis m
• Latvian: Sanktpēterburga f
• Lezgi: Санкт-Петербург (Sankt-Peterburg)
• Lithuanian: Sankt Peterburgas m
• Livonian: Pētõrburg

• Macedonian: Санкт Пе́тербург m (Sankt Péterburg)
• Malay: Saint Petersburg
• Malayalam: സെന്റ് പീറ്റേഴ്സ്ബര്‍ഗ് (senṟŭ pīṟṟēḻsbar‍gŭ)
• Maltese: San Pietruburgu m
• Mongolian: Санкт-Петербург (Sankt-Peterburg)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: St. Petersburg

  Nynorsk: Sankt Petersburg

• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: Санкт-Пєтєрбѹргъ m (Sankt-Peterburgŭ)

• Ossetian: Бетъырбух (Bet’yrbux)
• Persian: سن پترزبورگ‎ (fa) (san peterzburg), پتل پورت‎ (petel port) (dated)
• Polish: Petersburg (pl) m, Sankt Petersburg (pl) m
• Portuguese: São Petersburgo f
• Romanian: Petersburg
• Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг (ru) m (Sankt-Peterbúrg), Петербу́рг (ru) m (Peterbúrg), Пи́тер (ru) m (Píter) (colloquial)
• Scots: Saunt Petersburg
• Scottish Gaelic: Brìgh Naoimh Pheadair f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Санкт Петербург m

  Roman: Sankt Peterburg (sh) m

• Silesian: Pejtersburg m
• Slovak: Sankt Peterburg m, Petrohrad m
• Slovene: Sankt Peterburg m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Sankt Petersburg m

• Spanish: San Petersburgo (es) m
• Swahili: Sankt Peterburg
• Swedish: Sankt Petersburg (sv)
• Tagalog: San Petersburgo
• Tajik: Санкт-Петербург (Sankt-Peterburg)
• Tamil: சென் பீட்டர்ஸ்பேர்க் (ceṉ pīṭṭarspērk)
• Tatar: Санкт-Петербург (Sankt-Peterburg)
• Telugu: సెయింట్ పీటర్స్‌బర్గ్ (seyiṇṭ pīṭars‌barg)
• Thai: เซนต์ปีเตอร์สเบิร์ก (séen-bpii-dtə̂ə-sà-bə̀ək)
• Tibetan: སན་པི་ཏི་པོག (san pi ti pog)
• Turkish: St. Petersburg
• Turkmen: Sankt-Peterburg
• Ukrainian: Санкт-Петербу́рг m (Sankt-Peterbúrh), Петербу́рг m (Peterbúrh)
• Urdu: سینٹ پیٹرز برگ‎
• Uyghur: سانكت پېتېربۇرگ‎ (sankt pëtërburg)
• Uzbek: Sankt-Peterburg
• Veps: Piter
• Vietnamese: Sankt-Peterburg, Xanh Pê-téc-bua, Thành Bỉ Đắc (城彼得)
• Walloon: Sint Petersbork
• Yakut: Санкт-Петербург (Sankt-Peterburg)
• Yiddish: פּעטערבורג‎ (peterburg)

Synonyms

• Leningrad (historical name of the city, still the name of the surrounding oblast)
• Northern Palmyra (nickname)
• Petersburg (informal)
• Petrograd (historical name of the city, name of a region in the city)
• Piter (colloquial)
• Sankt-Peterburg (transliteration)