Kaliningrad

Location of Kaliningrad (Kaliningrad Oblast)

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Калинингра́д (Kaliningrád); named for Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈliːnɪnɡrad/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈlinɪnɡræd/

Proper noun

Kaliningrad

1. An oblast or federal subject in Russia; an exclave on the Baltic Sea, between Poland and Lithuania.
2. A city, the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, formerly called Königsberg.
   • 2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 47:

     As a second-year student at Kharkiv University, I took a summer job as a conductor of the train that ran from Novorossiysk on the Russian Black Sea coast to Kaliningrad in the Baltics - a 48-hour journey via Kharkiv, from where the train originated.

Synonyms

• (from German) Königsberg
• (from Polish) Królewiec

Translations

Kaliningrad — see also Königsberg

• Arabic: كَالِينِينْغْرَاد f (kaliningrād), كَالِينِينْغْرَاد f (kalininḡrād)
• Armenian: Կալինինգրադ (hy) (Kaliningrad)
• Azerbaijani: Kalininqrad
• Belarusian: Калінінгра́д m (Kalininhrád)
• Bengali: কালিনিনগ্রাদ (kaliningrad)
• Bulgarian: Калининград m (Kaliningrad)
• Burmese: ကာလင်နင်ဂရတ် (kalangnangga.rat)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加里寧格勒 (zh) (Jiālǐnínggélè)

• Czech: Kaliningrad m, Královec (cs) m
• Danish: Kaliningrad, Königsberg (pre-1945 period)
• Dutch: Kaliningrad n
• Esperanto: Kaliningrado
• Estonian: Kaliningrad (et)
• Finnish: Kaliningrad (fi)
• French: Kaliningrad (fr) m
• Georgian: კალინინგრადი (ḳaliningradi)
• German: Kaliningrad (de) n, Königsberg (de) n (dated)
• Greek: Καλίνινγκραντ (el) (Kalíningkrant)
• Hebrew: קלינינגרד f (kaliningrád)
• Hindi: कालिनिनग्राद m (kālininagrād)
• Hungarian: Kalinyingrád (hu)
• Icelandic: Kalíníngrad
• Italian: Kaliningrad (it) m
• Japanese: カリーニングラード (Kariningurādo)
• Kannada: ಕಲಿನಿನ್‍ಗ್ರಾಡ್ (kalinin‍grāḍ)
• Kazakh: Калининград (Kaliniñrad)
• Korean: 칼리닌그라드 (ko) (Kallinin'geuradeu)
• Kyrgyz: Калининград (Kaliningrad)
• Latvian: Kaļiņingrada f
• Limburgish: Kaliningrad
• Lithuanian: Kaliningradas m, Karaliaučius m
• Macedonian: Кали́нинград m (Kalíningrad)
• Malayalam: കലിനിൻഗ്രാഡ് (kaliniṉgrāḍŭ)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Калининград (Kaliningrad)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Kaliningrad n

  Nynorsk: Kaliningrad n

• Persian: کالینینگراد (kâliningrâd)
• Polish: Królewiec (pl) m, Kaliningrad (pl) m (former)
• Portuguese: Kaliningrado m
• Romanian: Kaliningrad
• Russian: Калинингра́д (ru) m (Kaliningrád)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Калињинград m, Краљевиц m

  Roman: Kalinjingrad m, Kraljevic m

• Slovak: Kaliningrad m, Kráľovec m
• Slovene: Kaliningrad m, Kraljevec m
• Spanish: Kaliningrado (es) m
• Swedish: Kaliningrad (sv) c, Königsberg (sv) (dated)
• Tajik: Калининград (Kaliningrad)
• Tamil: கலினின்கிராத் (kaliṉiṉkirāt)
• Telugu: కాలినిన్గ్రాడ్ (kāliningrāḍ)
• Thai: คาลินินกราด (kaa-lí-nin-gràat)
• Turkish: Kaliningrad
• Ukrainian: Калінінгра́д m (Kalininhrád), Королевець m (Korolevecʹ)
• Urdu: کیلننگراڈ (keliningrāḍ)
• Uzbek: Kaliningrad
• Yiddish: קאַלינינגראַד (kaliningrad)

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Калинингра́д (Kaliningrád).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Kaliningrad n (proper noun, genitive Kaliningrads or (optionally with an article) Kaliningrad)

1. An oblast of Russia; an exclave on the Baltic Sea, between Poland and Lithuania
2. A city, the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia; formerly located in East Prussia and called Königsberg

Declension

Declension of Kaliningrad [sg-only, neuter, toponym]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	das	Kaliningrad
genitive	des	Kaliningrads, Kaliningrad1
dative	dem	Kaliningrad
accusative	das	Kaliningrad

¹Optionally with an article.

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Kaliningrad

1. Kaliningrad (an oblast of Russia)
2. Kaliningrad (a city, the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Kaliningrad

1. Kaliningrad (an oblast of Russia)
2. Kaliningrad (a city, the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Калинингра́д (Kaliningrád).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.liˈɲiŋ.ɡrat/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iŋɡrat
• Syllabification: Ka‧li‧nin‧grad

Proper noun

Kaliningrad m inan

1. Kaliningrad (an oblast of Russia)
2. Kaliningrad, Königsberg (a city, the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia)

   Synonym: Królewiec

Declension

Declension of Kaliningrad

	singular
nominative	Kaliningrad
genitive	Kaliningradu
dative	Kaliningradowi
accusative	Kaliningrad
instrumental	Kaliningradem
locative	Kaliningradzie
vocative	Kaliningradzie

Derived terms

adjective

• kaliningradzki

 

nouns

• kaliningradczyk
• kaliningradka

 

Further reading

• Kaliningrad in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Turkish

Etymology

From Russian Калинингра́д (Kaliningrád).

Proper noun

Kaliningrad

1. Kaliningrad (an oblast of Russia)
2. Kaliningrad (a city, the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia)

Declension

declension of Kaliningrad

	singular, uncountable (tekil, sayılamaz)
nominative (yalın)	Kaliningrad
accusative (belirtme)	Kaliningrad'ı
dative (yönelme)	Kaliningrad'a
locative (bulunma)	Kaliningrad'da
ablative (çıkma)	Kaliningrad'dan
genitive (tamlayan)	Kaliningrad'ın