Запорожье

From за- (za-) +‎ поро́г (poróg) +‎ -ье (-ʹje).

• IPA^(key): [zəpɐˈroʐje]

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Запоро́жье • (Zaporóžʹje) n inan (genitive Запоро́жья, relational adjective запоро́жский)

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)

   Synonym: (before 1921) Александровск (Aleksandrovsk)

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)

• запоро́жец m (zaporóžec), запорожка f (zaporožka)
• Запоро́жец (Zaporóžec)

• → English: Zaporozhye
• → French: Zaporojié
• → German: Saporoschje

• Сечь (Sečʹ)