mykolaiv
/mɪkəˈlɑ(j)ɪv/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.30 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
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A village in Bobrovytsia urban hromada, Nizhyn Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1587.
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A village in Chornyi Ostriv settlement hromada, Khmelnytskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1555.
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A village in Lopatyn settlement hromada, Chervonohrad Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine, founded before 1772.
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A city, the administrative centre of Mykolaiv urban hromada, Stryi Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1570 near the River Dniester.
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A city, the administrative centre of Mykolaiv urban hromada, Stryi Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1570 near the River Dniester.
Example Sentences
- "He is worried for his parents, who live in Mykolaiv, a port city on the Black Sea where Abramenko was raised. It sits between the occupied city of Kherson and Odessa, expected to be a key target of the Russians."
- "Coordinate term: Mykolaiv and Sevastopol Military Governorate (predecessor administrative division [1805–1864])"
Etymology
From Ukrainian Микола́їв (Mykolájiv), from Микола́й (Mykoláj, “Nicholas”). The city near the Dniester was founded under the Polish name Mikołajów, named for its founder and first owner, Mikołaj Tarło. The city on the Southern Buh was founded under the Russian name Никола́ев (Nikolájev), named by the city’s founder, H.S.H. Prince Grigory Potemkin, for Никола́й Чудотво́рец (Nikoláj Čudotvórec, St Nicholas the Wonderworker), on whose feast day (the 6th of December) in 1788 (reckoned according to the Julian calendar) the Russian siege of Özi concluded with the capture of the Ottoman fortress-city (now Ochakiv, the Ukraine) by Russian forces under the Prince’s command. Both Polish Mikołajów and Russian Никола́ев (Nikolájev) are cognate with the Ukrainian name, being derived respectively from Mikołaj and Никола́й (Nikoláj), themselves cognate with Ukrainian Микола́й (Mykoláj) by common descent from Ancient Greek Νῑκόλᾱος (Nīkólāos). Compare Nikolayev.
Word Breakdown
- Root: Микола́їв
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /mɪkəˈlɑ(j)ɪv/
- British English: /mɪkəˈlɑː(j)ɪv/
Inflected Forms
Synonyms
Mykolaiv on the Dniester
Nikolayev Governorate
Kherson Governorate
Mykolaivshchyna