Zaporizhia

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Zapo + rizh + ia

Alternative forms

• Zaporizhzhya, Zaporizhzhia

Origin

From the historical region of the same name, Ukrainian Запорі́жжя ("place beyond the rapids"), from за (za, "beyond") + поро́ги ("rapids"), plural of порі́г ("river rapid, threshold"). Compare Russian Запоро́жье.

Full definition of Zaporizhia

Proper noun

1. An industrial city on the Dnieper river of south-central Ukraine, administrative centre of Zaporizhia province.
2. Zaporizhia province (oblast), in south-eastern Ukraine.
3. (historical) The region “beyond the rapids” in the lower reach of the river Dnieper in Ukraine, base of the Zaporozhian Cossacks.

Synonyms

• Zaporozhe, Zaporozhye, Zaporozhie
• Aleksandrovsk, Aleksandrovs’k, Alexandrovsk historical
• (province) Zaporizhia Oblast, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Zaporizhzhya Oblast

Related terms

• Zaporozhian Cossacks historical
• Zaporozhets