Dnipro

Etymology
From and earlier, from , from , from / (Sarmatian)  Apara ("Far River") or. The former derivation would pair it with the, while the latter would refer to its lack of fords. and. As a city, originally a clipping of, formally adopted as the town's name in 2016 as part of general decommunization of placenames. Its oblast has not yet followed suit because it is mentioned by name in the Ukrainian constitution.

Proper noun

 * , on the river.
 * , an oblast of Ukraine.
 * , an oblast of Ukraine.

Usage notes
Formerly, the more common English name of this river was. Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, nearly all Western media began adopting the Ukrainian form of the name. Alternatively, the name can be used to distinguish the lower stretches of the river through Ukraine, as opposed to its upper reaches in Russia and Belarus.

Synonyms

 * Borysthenes, Slavutych, Slavutich, Danasper, Danapris ; Dnieper
 * Dnipropetrovsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Dnipro-Petrovske, Dnipro-Petrovs’ke, Sicheslav, Novorossiysk, Katerynoslav, Yekaterinoslav

Related terms

 * Dniester

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: Дняпро́
 * Bulgarian: Дне́пър
 * Catalan: Dnièper
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Crimean Tatar: Özü
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Dnepr
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: დნეპრი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: Βορυσθένης, Δάναπρις
 * Hebrew: דנייפר
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: Nipro
 * Japanese: ドニエプル川
 * Korean: 드네프르 강
 * Latin: Danaper, Borysthenēs
 * Lithuanian: Dniepras
 * Macedonian: Дне́пар
 * Nogai: Узу
 * Old East Slavic: Дънѣпръ
 * Old Norse: Nepr
 * Ottoman Turkish: اوزی
 * Persian: دنیپر
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Dnieper, Dniepre, Borístenes
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Дњепар
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: Dneper
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: Dinyeper, Özi
 * Ukrainian:, Дніпр
 * Yiddish: דניעפּער


 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: Днепрапятро́ўск, Дняпро́, Дніпро́
 * Bulgarian: Днепропетро́вск
 * Danish: Dnepropetrovsk
 * Dutch: Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk
 * Farefare: Nipro
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: დნეპროპეტროვსკი
 * Greek:
 * Kazakh: Днепропетровск
 * Kyrgyz: Днепропетровск
 * Macedonian: Днипро, Днепар
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: Dnepropetrovsk, Dnipropetrovsk
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Дњепропетровск
 * Roman: Dnjepropetrovsk
 * Turkish: Dnipro
 * Ukrainian: ,

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