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Zmiinyi

Zmiinyi is the alternative form of Snake Island.

Meaning of Snake Island

Proper noun (1)

Snake Island

  1. Any of several islands with the name.
    Synonyms:
    Snake

Proper noun (2)

Snake Island

  1. An island in Budjak, on the Black Sea, at the Danue Delta, Danube River in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, on the border with Romania.
    • SNAKE ISLAND
    • Located in the northwestern side of the Black Sea, Snake Island, or called ostriv Zmiyinyy in Ukrainian and Insula Serpilor in Romanian, is currently administered by Ukraine but claimed by Romania. The Snake Island is a limestone formation located 35 km from the coast, east of the mouth of the...2006, Rongxing Guo, Territorial Disputes and Resource Management: A Global Handbook, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 224
    Synonyms:
    Fidonisi, Serpent, Serpent Island, Snake, Zmiinyi, Zmiinyi Island

Synonyms of Zmiinyi

Origin of Zmiinyi

Borrowed from Ukrainian змії́ний (zmijínyj, “serpentine, related to snakes”), short for о́стрів Змії́ний (óstriv Zmijínyj, “Snake Island”).

Phrases with Zmiinyi

Questions about Zmiinyi

What is Zmiinyi the alternative form of?
Zmiinyi is the alternative form of Snake Island.

Words near Zmiinyi in the dictionary

  1. ZLS
  2. zls.
  3. ZLTO
  4. Zlín
  5. Zmagoslav
  6. Zmiinyi
  7. Zmiinyi Island
  8. Zmiiv
  9. Zmiivka
  10. zmijovka
  11. zmijovky

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Zmiinyi (page history and authors); Snake Island (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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