Khmelnytskyi

Meaning

1. A surname from Ukrainian
2. Khmelnytskyi oblast, in south-eastern Ukraine.
3. Khmelnytskyi raion in Khmelnytskyi oblast
4. Bohdan Khmelnytsky (c. 1595–1657), a Ukrainian Cossack hetman who led an uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and signed the Treaty of Pereyaslav with Czar Alexis I of Russia.
5. A city, raion, and oblast of Ukraine.

Etymology / origin

From Ukrainian Хмельни́цький (Xmelʹnýcʹkyj), after the Ukrainian Cossack Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Derived from хміль (xmilʹ, “hops, humulus”).

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