English
Alternative forms
- Kyiv, Kyjiv, Kyyiv, Kief
- (obsolete) Kiow, Kiovia, Kiew, Kiou
Proper noun
Kiev
- The capital of Ukraine
- The medieval principality centred on Kiev; the Kievan state or Kievan Rus
- Kiev province (oblast) of Ukraine
Quotations
- For usage examples of this term, see Citations:Kiev.
Synonyms
- (province): Kiev Oblast, Kyiv Oblast
Derived terms
Translations
Ukrainian city
- Albanian: Kievi m, Kiev m (definite)
- Amharic: ኪየቭ (kiyäv)
- Arabic: كِيِيف m (kiyef)
- Armenian: Կիև (Kiew)
- Azeri: Kiyev (az)
- Bashkir Киев (Kiyev)
- Belarusian: Кі́еў m (Kíjeŭ)
- Bengali: কিয়েভ (kiyebh)
- Bulgarian: Ки́ев m (Kíev)
- Burmese: ကီးယက် (ki:yak), ကီးယက်မြို့ (ki:yakmrui.)
- Chechen: Киев (Kiew)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 基輔 (zh), 基辅 (zh) (Jīfǔ)
- Chuvash: Кейӳ (Kejü)
- Crimean Tatar: Kiyev
- Czech: Kyjev (cs) m
- Danish: Kiev
- Dutch: Kiëv, Kiev (nl)
- Esperanto: Kievo
- Estonian: Kiiev (et)
- Finnish: Kiova (fi)
- French: Kiev (fr) m
- Georgian: კიევი (ḳievi)
- German: Kiew (de) n
- Greek: Κίεβο (el) n (Kíevo)
- Hebrew: קִיֶב / קייב f (kiyev)
- Hindi: कीव (kīv)
- Hungarian: Kijev (hu)
- Icelandic: Kænugarður m, Kíev
- Indonesian: Kiev
- Irish: Cív f
- Italian: Kijev
- Japanese: キエフ (ja) (Kiefu)
- Kannada: ಕೀವ್ (kīv)
- Kashubian: Czijew m
- Kazakh: Киев (Kïev)
- Khmer: គៀវ (kiev)
- Korean: 키예프 (Kiyepeu)
- Kyrgyz: Киев (Kiyev), Киев (Kiyev)
- Lao: ຄີຢິບ (khī yip)
- Latin: Kiovia f
- Latvian: Kijeva f
- Lithuanian: Kijevas (lt) m
- Macedonian: Ки́ев m (Kíev)
- Malay: Kiev
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- Malayalam: കീവ് (kīv)
- Maltese: Kiev, Kjev
- Mongolian: Киев (Kijev)
- Navajo: Kííyeb
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Kiev (no)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: Кꙑѥвъ m (Kyjevŭ)
- Old East Slavic: Кꙑѥвъ m (Kyjevŭ)
- Old English: Cænugeard
- Ossetian: Киев (Kiev)
- Persian: کیف (fa) (Kiyef)
- Polish: Kijów (pl) m
- Portuguese: Kiev (pt) f, Quieve f
- Russian: Ки́ев (ru) m (Kíjev)
- Rusyn: Ки́їв m (Kýjiv)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Кијев m
- Roman: Kijev (sh) m
- Silesian: Kijůw m
- Slovak: Kyjev m
- Slovene: Kijev m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: Kijew m
- Upper Sorbian: Kijew m
- Spanish: Kiev (es) m
- Swedish: Kiev (sv)
- Tagalog: Kiev
- Tajik: Киев (Kiyev)
- Tamil: கீவ் (kīv)
- Tatar: Киев (Kiyew)
- Telugu: క్యివ్ (kyiv)
- Thai: เคียฟ (kîiaf)
- Turkish: Kiev (tr)
- Turkmen: Kyýiw, Kiýew
- Ukrainian: Ки́їв (uk) m (Kýjiv)
- Urdu: کیف (kīf)
- Uyghur: كىيېۋ (kiyëw)
- Uzbek: Kiyev
- Vietnamese: Ki-ép
- Volapük: Küyiv
- Yiddish: קיִעוו (kiev)
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Medieval principality
- Belarusian: Кі́еўская Русь f (Kíjeŭskaja Rusʹ)
- Bulgarian: Ки́евска Рус f (Kíevska Rus)
- Czech: Kyjevská Rus f
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Kiev province (oblast)
- Belarusian: Кі́еўская во́бласць f (Kíjeŭskaja vóblascʹ)
- Macedonian: Ки́евска о́бласт f (Kíevska óblast)
- Russian: Ки́евская о́бласть f (Kíjevskaja óblastʹ), Ки́евщина f (Kíjevščina) (Ukraine)
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Dutch
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kiev n
- Kiev
French
Proper noun
Kiev m
- Kiev
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowing from Russian Ки́ев (Kíjev, “Kiev”)
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ki.ˈɛv/, /ki.ˈɛ.vi/
Proper noun
Kiev f
- Kiev (the capital city of Ukraine)
Derived terms
Spanish
Proper noun
Kiev m
- Kiev
Swedish
Alternative forms
Proper noun
Kiev
- Kiev, the capital of Ukraine