Zaporizhia

Meaning

Proper Noun

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

Related

Similar words

• Zaporozhe, Zaporozhye, Zaporozhie
• Aleksandrovsk, Aleksandrovs’k, Alexandrovsk
• Zaporizhia Oblast, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Zaporizhzhya Oblast

Origin

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