Saint Petersburg

English

Alternative forms

• St. Petersburg, St.-Petersburg, St Petersburg, St-Petersburg, Saint-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. Doublet of Peterborough.

Pronunciation

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

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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
   1. 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 f (sant buṭrusburḡ), سَانْت بِطِرْسْبُرْغ‎ f (sant biṭirsburḡ)
• Armenian: Սանկտ Պետերբուրգ (Sankt Peterburg)
• Azerbaijani: Sankt-Peterburq
• Bashkir: Санкт-Петербург (Sankt-Peterburg)
• Belarusian: Санкт-Пецярбу́рг m (Sankt-Pjecjarbúrh), Пецярбу́рг m (Pjecjarbúrh)
• Bengali: সেন্ট পিটার্সবার্গ (śenṭ piṭarśarg)
• Bulgarian: Санкт Петербу́рг m (Sankt Peterbúrg)
• Burmese: စိန့်ပီတာစဘတ် (cin.pitaca.bhat)
• 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: Питӗрпур (Pit̬ĕrp̬ur), Питӗр (Pit̬ĕr) (colloquial)
• Corsican: San Pietruburgu m, San Petruburgu m
• Czech: Sankt Petěrburg m, Petrohrad (cs) m
• Danish: Sankt Petersborg n
• Dutch: Sint-Petersburg (nl) n
• 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: סֶנְט פֶּטֶרְסְבּוּרְג‎ f (sent petersburg)
• Hindi: सेंट पीटर्सबर्ग m (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-Peterburg), Сән-Питербор (Sän-Piterbor)
• Khmer: សាំងពេទែរបួក (sangpeitɛɛbuək)
• 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 Петербург m (Sankt Peterburg)
• Malay: Saint Petersburg
• Malayalam: സെന്റ് പീറ്റേഴ്സ്ബര്‍ഗ് (senṟŭ pīṟṟēḻsbar‍gŭ)
• Maltese: San Pietruburgu m
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Санкт-Петербург (Sankt-Pyötyörburg)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: St. Petersburg

  Nynorsk: Sankt Petersburg

• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: Санкт-Пєтєрбоургъ 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 m
• 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: Са̏нкт Пѐтербург m

  Roman: Sȁnkt Pèterburg (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) n
• 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, Sankt-Peterburg
• Turkmen: Sankt-Peterburg
• Ukrainian: Санкт-Петербу́рг m (Sankt-Peterbúrh), Петербу́рг m (Peterbúrh)
• Urdu: سینٹ پیٹرز برگ‎ m (seṇṭ pīṭarz barg)
• Uyghur: سانكت پېتېربۇرگ‎ (sankt pëtërburg)
• Uzbek: Sankt-Peterburg
• Veps: Piter
• Vietnamese: Xanh Pê-téc-bua, Thành Bỉ Đắc (城彼得)
• Walloon: Sint Petersbork
• Yakut: Санкт-Петербург (Sankt-Peterburg)
• Yiddish: פּעטערבורג‎ n (peterburg)

Synonyms

(Leningrad, Petrograd; a former capital of Russia, a city on the Baltic Sea):

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

Derived terms

• St. Pete
• St. Pete Beach
• St. Petersburg Beach