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Zmiinyi Island

Zmiinyi Island proper noun: snake Island (an island in Budjak, on the Black Sea, at the Danue Delta, Danube River in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, on the border with Romania).

Proper noun

Zmiinyi Island

  1. Snake Island (an island in Budjak, on the Black Sea, at the Danue Delta, Danube River in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, on the border with Romania).
    Synonyms:
    Snake Island

Synonyms of Zmiinyi Island

Origin of Zmiinyi Island

From Ukrainian О́стрів Змії́ний (Óstriv Zmijínyj, “Snake Island”), from Romanian Insula Șerpilor (“Serpent Island”), from Russian Змеиный (Zmeinyj, “Serpent”), from Byzantine Greek Φιδονήσι (Phidonḗsi, “Snake Isle”), from Byzantine Greek φιδο (phido, “snake”) (Greek φίδι (fídi)) + νήσι (nísi, “island”).

Questions about Zmiinyi Island

What does Zmiinyi Island mean?
Zmiinyi Island means snake Island (an island in Budjak, on the Black Sea, at the Danue Delta, Danube River in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, on the border with Romania).
What part of speech is Zmiinyi Island?
Zmiinyi Island is a proper noun.

Words near Zmiinyi Island in the dictionary

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

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