Kaliningrad

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Калинингра́д (Kaliningrád); named for Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /kəˈliːnɪnɡrad/
  • (US) IPA(key): /kəˈlinɪnɡræd/

Proper noun

Kaliningrad

  1. An oblast or federal subject in Russia; an exclave on the Baltic Sea, between Poland and Lithuania.
  2. A city, the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, formerly called Königsberg.
    • 2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 47:
      As a second-year student at Kharkiv University, I took a summer job as a conductor of the train that ran from Novorossiysk on the Russian Black Sea coast to Kaliningrad in the Baltics - a 48-hour journey via Kharkiv, from where the train originated.

Synonyms

Translations

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Калинингра́д (Kaliningrád).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Kaliningrad n (proper noun, genitive Kaliningrads or (optionally with an article) Kaliningrad)

  1. an oblast of Russia; an exclave on the Baltic Sea, between Poland and Lithuania
  2. a city, the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia; formerly located in East Prussia and called Königsberg

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Kaliningrad

  1. Kaliningrad (an oblast of Russia)
  2. Kaliningrad (a city, the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Kaliningrad

  1. Kaliningrad (an oblast of Russia)
  2. Kaliningrad (a city, the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Калинингра́д (Kaliningrád).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.liˈɲiŋ.ɡrat/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -iŋɡrat
  • Syllabification: Ka‧li‧nin‧grad

Proper noun

Kaliningrad m inan

  1. Kaliningrad (an oblast of Russia)
  2. Kaliningrad, Königsberg (a city, the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia)
    Synonym: Królewiec

Declension

Derived terms

adjective
  • kaliningradzki
nouns
  • kaliningradczyk
  • kaliningradka

Further reading

Turkish

Etymology

From Russian Калинингра́д (Kaliningrád).

Proper noun

Kaliningrad

  1. Kaliningrad (an oblast of Russia)
  2. Kaliningrad (a city, the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia)

Declension

Declension of Kaliningrad
singular
nominative Kaliningrad
accusative Kaliningrad'ı
dative Kaliningrad'a
locative Kaliningrad'da
ablative Kaliningrad'dan
genitive Kaliningrad'ın