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khmelnytskyi

/k(ə)mɛlˈnɪtski/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
Khmel-nyts-kyi
IPA
/k(ə)mɛlˈnɪtski/
31
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

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A city, raion, and oblast of Ukraine.

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Khmelnytskyi raion in Khmelnytskyi oblast

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Khmelnytskyi oblast, in south-eastern Ukraine.

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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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A surname from Ukrainian

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Ukrainian Хмельни́цький (Xmelʹnýcʹkyj), after the Ukrainian Cossack Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Derived from хміль (xmilʹ, “hops, humulus”).

Word Breakdown

  • Root: Хмельни́цький

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in People.

Inflected Forms

Khmelnytsky (alternative) Khmel’nyts’ky (alternative) Khmelnytskyy (alternative) Khmel’nyts’kyy (alternative) Khmelnitskiy (alternative) Khmel’nitskiy (alternative) Khmelnitsky (alternative) Khmel’nitsky (alternative) Chmelnitzki (alternative) Chmielnicki (alternative) Chmielnitsky (alternative) Chmielnitzky (alternative)

Synonyms

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Questions

How do you pronounce khmelnytskyi?
The recorded pronunciation is /k(ə)mɛlˈnɪtski/.
What does khmelnytskyi mean?
A city, raion, and oblast of Ukraine.
Where does khmelnytskyi come from?
From Ukrainian Хмельни́цький (Xmelʹnýcʹkyj), after the Ukrainian Cossack Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Derived from хміль (xmilʹ, “hops, humulus”).

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