Запорожє
Pannonian Rusyn
Etymology
Likely borrowed from Carpathian Rusyn *Запорожя (*Zaporožja). By surface analysis, за- (za-) + Carpathian Rusyn порог (poroh) + -є (-je). Compare Slovak Záporožie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [zapɔˈrɔʒjɛ]
- Rhymes: -ɔʒjɛ
- Hyphenation: За‧по‧рожє
Proper noun
Запорожє (Zaporožje) n
- Zaporizhzhia (an industrial city and urban hromada, the administrative center of Zaporizhzhia Raion and Zaporizhzhia Oblast, in south-central Ukraine, on the Dnipro River)
- (historical) Zaporizhzhia (a geographic region south-central Ukraine, “beyond the rapids” in the lower reaches of the Dnipro River, base of the Zaporozhian Cossacks)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Запорожє (Zaporožje) | — |
| genitive | Запорожя (Zaporožja) | — |
| dative | Запорожю (Zaporožju) | — |
| accusative | Запорожє (Zaporožje) | — |
| instrumental | Запорожйом (Zaporožjom) | — |
| locative | Запорожю (Zaporožju) | — |
| vocative | Запорожє (Zaporožje) | — |
References
- Medʹeši, H.; Fejsa, M. (1997), “Запорожје”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Сербско-руски словнїк [Serbian-Rusyn Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 2 (О – Ш), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy, page 837