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Novgorod

Novgorod

See also: Nóvgorod

English

Proper noun

Novgorod

A historic city and a former principality in Russia.
A medieval Russian state.
A northwestern oblast of Russia.

Synonyms

Veliky Novgorod (Великий Новгород - the official name of the city)

Translations

city

Arabic: نُوفْغُورُود m ‎(nufḡurud)
Armenian: Նովգորոդ ‎(Novgorod)
Belarusian: Ноўгарад m ‎(Nóŭharad)
Bulgarian: Новгород m ‎(Nóvgorod)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 諾夫哥羅德 (zh), 诺夫哥罗德 (zh) ‎(Nuòfūgēluódé)
Esperanto: Novgorodo
French: Novgorod (fr) m
Georgian: ნოვგოროდი ‎(novgorodi)
German: Nowgorod n
Greek: Νόβγκοροντ (el) m ‎(Nóvnkoront)
Hebrew: נובגורוד
Hindi: नॉवग्रोद ‎(novagrōd)
Japanese: ノヴゴロド ‎(Novugorodo), ノブゴロド ‎(Nobugorodo)

Korean: 노브고로드 ‎(Nobeugorodeu), 벨리키노브고로드 ‎(Belliki-Nobeugorodeu)
Macedonian: Новгород m ‎(Nóvgorod)
Mongolian: Новгород ‎(Novgorod)
Persian: نووگورود, ولیکی نووگورود
Polish: Nowgorod m
Portuguese: Novgorod f
Romanian: Novgorod (ro)
Russian: Но́вгород (ru) m ‎(Nóvgorod), Вели́кий Но́вгород (ru) m ‎(Velíkij Nóvgorod)
Serbo-Croatian: Новгород m, Novgorod m
Spanish: Nóvgorod m
Swedish: Novgorod
Ukrainian: Новгород m ‎(Nóvhorod)
Vietnamese: Novgorod

See also

Nizhny Novgorod

Portuguese

Proper noun

Novgorod f

Novgorod (an oblast of Russia)
Novgorod (a city, the regional capital of Novgorod, Russia)

Swedish

Proper noun

Novgorod

Veliky Novgorod, Novgorod (the great), a city in north-western Russia

Usage notes

Note that the name "Novgorod" on its own in Swedish always refers to the northern or great Novgorod, while the southern town is always called with the double name Nizjnij Novgorod