Запорожие

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Etymology

From Old Ruthenian Запорожие (Zaporožje), formed as за- (za-, “forward”) +‎ Ukrainian пороги (porohy, “rapids”) +‎ -ие (-ie).

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Proper noun

Запоро́жие • (Zaporóžie)

  1. Zaporizhzhia (an industrial city and urban hromada, the administrative center of Zaporizhzhia Raion and Zaporizhzhia Oblast, in south-central Ukraine, on the Dnipro River)
  2. Zaporizhzhia (a raion of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine)
  3. Zaporizhzhia (an oblast in southeast Ukraine, also illicitly claimed by Russia)
  4. (historical) Zaporizhzhia (a geographic region south-central Ukraine, “beyond the rapids” in the lower reaches of the Dnipro River, base of the Zaporozhian Cossacks)

Alternative forms

  • праг (prag, “threshold”) (cognate with the root of the East Slavic word)
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