Lemberg

Borrowed from German Lemberg.

Lemberg (countable and uncountable, plural Lembergs)

1. (countable) A surname from German.
2. (chiefly historical) Synonym of Lviv (a city in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine).
3. (now rare) Synonym of Lviv (an oblast of Ukraine).
   • 2025 April 21st, Torsten Heinrich, “Trump’s Peace Plan and the ‘Easter-Truce’. Ukraine SITREP”, in Military & History, via YouTube, 15:22–15:26:

     This morning, a flight radar showed a plane flying in the Lemberg region.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Lemberg is the 35866^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 626 individuals. Lemberg is most common among White (95.37%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Lemberg”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 420.

Assimilated from Lebenberg, Lewenberg, Levenberg, also Lehmberg, Lewberg, all forms also valid for Löwenberg in Schlesien, as also for Löwenberg castles in various places of the German language area, not always well distinguishable in chronicles; in the Galician case the lion is Leo I of Galicia, in a Slavic form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛmbɛʁk/

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Lemberg n (proper noun, genitive Lembergs or (optionally with an article) Lemberg)

1. Lemberg (Lviv, a city in Galicia, western Ukraine)

• English: Lemberg
• Portuguese: Lemberga

• “Lemberg” in Duden online
• “Lemberg” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Lemberg” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon