Petrograd

English

Etymology

From Russian Петрогра́д (Petrográd). The portion Петро (Petro, “Petros”), from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros) and German Peter, from Dutch Pieter, from Sankt Pieter (“Saint Peter”), from Apostle Peter and Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia and then Emperor. The portion град (grad, “city”), from German Burg (“city, castle”), from Dutch burch (“town, fortress”). Петрогра́д (Petrográd, “Petrograd”) from German Sankt Petersburg (“Санкт-Петербургъ (Sankt-Peterburg)”), from Dutch Sankt-Pieter-Burch (“Сант-Питер-Бурхъ (Sant-Piter-Burx)”), the Russian city was named in Dutch instead of Russian by Peter the Great.

Proper noun

Petrograd

1. (historical) The former name, from 1914 (when Russia entered World War I) to 1924 (when Lenin died), of Saint Petersburg, a major city in Russia.

   Synonyms: Leningrad, Saint Petersburg, Sankt Petersburg, Saint Petersburgh

2. A region of Saint Petersburg city, Saint Petersburg, Northwest Russia district, European Russia, Russia.

Translations

Saint Petersburg — see also Saint Petersburg

• Albanian: Petrograd
• Arabic: بِيتْرُوغْرَاد (bītrūḡrād)
• Armenian: Պետրոգրադ (Petrograd)
• Azerbaijani: Petroqrad
• Basque: Petrograd
• Belarusian: Петрагра́д m (Pjetrahrád)
• Bengali: পেত্রোগ্রাদ (petrōgrad)
• Bulgarian: Петрогра́д m (Petrográd)
• Catalan: Petrograd
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 彼得格勒 (bei² dak¹ gaak³ lak⁶)

  Mandarin: 彼得格勒 (zh) (Bǐdegélè)

• Czech: Petrohrad (cs) m
• Danish: Petrograd
• Dutch: Petrograd
• Esperanto: Petrogrado
• Estonian: Petrograd (et)
• Finnish: Pietari (fi), Petrograd (fi)
• French: Pétrograd (fr)
• Georgian: პეტროგრადი (ṗeṭrogradi)
• German: Petrograd (de) n
• Greek: Πετρογκράντ (Petrogkránt)
• Gujarati: પેટ્રોગ્રાડ (peṭrogrāḍ)
• Hindi: पेत्रोग्राद (petrogrād)
• Hungarian: Petrográd
• Icelandic: Petrógrad
• Ido: Petrograd
• Italian: Pietrogrado
• Japanese: ペトログラード (Petorogurādo)
• Kannada: ಪೆಟ್ರೊಗ್ರಾಡ್ (peṭrogrāḍ)
• Kazakh: Петроград (Petrograd)
• Korean: 페트로그라드 (peteurogeuradeu)
• Latvian: Petrograda f
• Lithuanian: Petrogradas m
• Macedonian: Петроград m (Petrograd)
• Malayalam: പെട്രോഗാർഡ് (peṭrōgāṟḍŭ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Petrograd

  Nynorsk: Petrograd

• Persian: پطروگراد (fa) (petrogerâd)
• Polish: Piotrogród (pl) m
• Portuguese: Petrogrado
• Punjabi: ਪੇਤਰੋਗ੍ਰਾਦ (petrogrād)
• Romanian: Petrograd
• Russian: Петрогра́д (ru) m (Petrográd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Пѐтрогра̄д m

  Roman: Pètrogrād (sh) m

• Slovak: Petrohrad m
• Slovene: Petrograd m
• Spanish: Petrogrado
• Swedish: Petrograd
• Tamil: பெத்ரோகிராது (petrōkirātu)
• Turkish: Petrograd
• Ukrainian: Петрогра́д m (Petrohrád)
• Yiddish: פּעטראָגראַד n (petrograd)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pětroɡraːd/
• Hyphenation: Pe‧tro‧grad

Proper noun

Pètrogrād m (Cyrillic spelling Пѐтрогра̄д)

1. (historical) Petrograd (the former name, from 1914 to 1924, of Saint Petersburg, a major city in Russia)

   Synonym: Lènjingrād

Declension

Declension of Petrograd

	singular
nominative	Petrograd
genitive	Petrograda
dative	Petrogradu
accusative	Petrograd
vocative	Petrograde
locative	Petrogradu
instrumental	Petrogradom