Voronezh

English

Etymology

From Russian Воро́неж (Vorónež).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vəˈɹɒniʒ/
• Hyphenation: Vo‧ro‧nezh

Proper noun

Voronezh

1. An oblast of Russia.
2. A city, the administrative center of Voronezh Oblast, Russia.
   • 1989 October 11, Esther B. Fein, “U.F.O. Landing Is Fact, Not Fantasy, the Russians Insist”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 October 2012, Section A, page 6‎^[2]:

     Residents of the city of Voronezh insisted today that lanky, three-eyed extraterrestrial creatures had indeed landed in a local park and gone for a stroll and that a seemingly fantastic report about the event carried Monday by the official press agency Tass was absolutely true.

3. A left tributary of the Don in Tambov, Lipetsk and Voronezh Oblasts, Russia.

Translations

city in Russia

• Arabic: فُورُونِيج f (furūnij)
• Armenian: Վորոնեժ (Voronež)
• Belarusian: Воро́неж m (Vorónjež)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沃羅涅日／沃罗涅日 (zh) (Wòluónièrì)

• Czech: Voroněž m
• Danish: Voronezj
• Finnish: Voronež (fi)
• French: Voronej (fr) m
• Georgian: ვორონეჟი (voroneži)
• German: Woronesch (de) n, Woronesh n
• Greek: Βορόνεζ (Vorónez)
• Hebrew: וורונז׳
• Hindi: वोरोनेझ़ m (voroneź)
• Hungarian: Voronyezs (hu)
• Japanese: ヴォロネジ (Voroneji), ボロネジ (Boroneji)
• Korean: 보로네시 (Boronesi)
• Macedonian: Воронеж m (Voronež)
• Marathi: वोरोनेझ n (voronejh)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Воронеж (Voronež)

• Polish: Woroneż (pl), Woroneż (pl) m
• Portuguese: Voronej f
• Russian: Воро́неж (ru) m (Vorónež)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Вороњеж m

  Roman: Voronjež m

• Slovak: Voronež f
• Spanish: Vorónezh m
• Thai: โวโรเนช (woo-roo-nêet)
• Ukrainian: Воро́неж m (Vorónež), Воро́ніж (uk) m (Voróniž)
• Vietnamese: Voronezh

river

• Russian: Воро́неж (ru) m (Vorónež)

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Voronezh”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2046, column 1

Portuguese

Proper noun

Voronezh f

1. Alternative spelling of Voronej