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Saint Petersburg
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English
Alternative forms
en St. Petersburg St.-Petersburg St Petersburg St-Petersburg Saint-Petersburg St. Petersburgh obsolete
Etymology
en ru Санкт-Петербу́рг equivalent to en Saint Peter -s- -burg, from en de Sankt Petersburg Saint Peter's City, referring to Saint Peter the Apostle and alluding to its founder Tsar Peter the Great. en Peterborough.
Pronunciation
en /sənt ˈpiːtə(r)zˌbɜː(r)ɡ/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Saint Petersburg.wav Southern England
Proper noun
thumb|Saint Petersburg, Russia
Saint Petersburg
en Q656en federal city/and/federal subject c/Russia known between 1914 and 1924 as Petrograd and between 1924 and 1991 as Leningrad ; former capital c/Russia from 1713 to 1728 and 1732 to 1918.
en St. Petersburg:
en city s/Florida c/USA.
en unincorporated community co/Logan County s/Colorado c/USA.
Synonyms
Leningrad, Petrograd; a former capital of Russia, a city on the Baltic Sea
en Leningrad historical name of the city, still the name of the surrounding oblast
en Northern Palmyra nickname
en Peterburg informal rare
en Petersburg informal
en Petrograd historical name of the city, name of a region in the city
en Piter colloquial
en Sankt-Peterburg transliteration
en Venice of the North nickname
Derived terms
en Petersburger Petersburgian St. Petersburg Beach St. Pete St. Pete Beach
Translations
city in Russia
Abkhaz: ab Санқт-Петербург
Afrikaans: af Sint Petersburg
Albanian: sq Shën Petersburgu m
Amharic: am ሳንክት ፔቴርቡርግ
Arabic: ar سَانْت بُطْرُسْبُرْغ f sant buṭrusburḡ, ar سَانْت بِطِرْسْبُرْغ f sant biṭirsburḡ
Armenian: hy Սանկտ Պետերբուրգ
Azerbaijani:
Arabic: az فتيلبورك fitîlbörk, az پطرسبورغ petresbūrgh, az پترهبورق petrébūrq
Latin: az Sankt-Peterburq, az Fitilbörk
Bashkir: ba Санкт-Петербург
Basque: eu San Petersburgo
Belarusian: be Санкт-Пецярбу́рг m, be Пецярбу́рг m
Bengali: bn সেন্ট পিটার্সবার্গ
Bulgarian: bg Санкт Петербу́рг m
Burmese: my စိန့်ပီတာစဘတ်
Buryat: bua Саанкта-Петербүүргэ
Catalan: ca Sant Petersburg m
Chechen: ce Петарбух
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 聖彼得堡 Shèng Bǐdebǎo
Chuvash: cv Питӗрпур, cv Питӗр colloquial
Circassian:
East Circassian: kbd Бытырбыху
Corsican: co San Pietruburgu m, co San Petruburgu m
Czech: cs Sankt Petěrburg m, cs Petrohrad m
Danish: da Sankt Petersborg n
Dutch: nl Sint-Petersburg n
Erzya: myv Ине-Петрань ош
Esperanto: eo Sankt-Peterburgo
Estonian: et Peterburi, et Sankt-Peterburg rare, et Piiter historical
Faroese: fo St. Pætursborg f, fo Sankta Pætursborg f
Finnish: fi Pietari
French: fr Saint-Pétersbourg m
Georgian: ka სანქტ-პეტერბურგი
German: de Sankt Petersburg n
Greek: el Αγία Πετρούπολη f
Hebrew: he סֶנְט פֶּטֶרְסְבּוּרְג f sent petersburg
Hindi: hi सेंट पीटर्सबर्ग seṇṭ pīṭarsbarg m
Hungarian: hu Szentpétervár
Icelandic: is Sankti Pétursborg f, is Pétursborg f
Ido: io Sankt-Peterburg
Indonesian: id St. Petersburg
Ingrian: izh Petteri
Irish: ga Cathair Pheadair f, ga Brí Shan Pheadair f
Italian: it San Pietroburgo m
Japanese: ja サンクトペテルブルク Sankuto-Peteruburuku
Kalmyk: xal Пиитр
Kannada: kn ಸೇಂಟ್ ಪೀಟರ್ಸ್ಬರ್ಗ್
Kazakh: kk Санкт-Петербург, kk Сән-Питербор
Khmer: km សាំងពេទែរបួក
Komi:
Komi-Permyak: koi Петыркар
Komi-Zyrian: kpv Петыркар
Korean: ko ^상트페테르부르크, ko ^싼크뜨뻬쩨르부르그 North Korea
Kyrgyz: ky Санкт-Петербург
Latin: la Petropolis m
Latvian: lv Sanktpēterburga f
Lezgi: lez Санкт-Петербург
Lithuanian: lt Sankt Peterburgas m
Livonian: liv Pētõrburg
Macedonian: mk Санкт Петербург m
Malay: ms Saint Petersburg
Malayalam: ml സെന്റ് പീറ്റേഴ്സ്ബര്ഗ്
Maltese: mt San Pietruburgu m
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Санкт-Петербург
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb St. Petersburg
Nynorsk: nn Sankt Petersburg
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: cu Санкт-Пєтєрбоургъ m
Ossetian: os Бетъырбух
Persian: fa سن پترزبورگ san peterzburg, fa پتل پورت petel port dated, fa سن پطرزبورگ san peterzburg, fa سن پطرزبورغ san peterzburġ
Polish: pl Petersburg m-in, pl Sankt Petersburg m-in, pl Piotrogród m-in historical, pl Leningrad m-in historical
Portuguese: pt São Petersburgo m
Romanian: ro Petersburg
Russian: ru Санкт-Петербу́рг m, ru Петербу́рг m, ru Пи́тер m colloquial
Scots: sco Saunt Petersburg
Scottish Gaelic: gd Brìgh Naoimh Pheadair f
Selkup:
Southern Selkup: sel-sou Пятроӄва́ҷ
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Са̏нкт Пѐтербург m
Latin: sh Sȁnkt Pèterburg m
Silesian: szl Pejtersburg m
Slovak: sk Sankt Peterburg m, sk Petrohrad m
Slovene: sl Sankt Peterburg m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dsb Sankt Petersburg m
Spanish: es San Petersburgo m
Swahili: sw Sankt Peterburg
Swedish: sv Sankt Petersburg n
Tagalog: tl San Petersburgo
Tajik: tg Санкт-Петербург
Tamil: ta சென் பீட்டர்ஸ்பேர்க்
Tatar: tt Санкт-Петербург
Telugu: te సెయింట్ పీటర్స్బర్గ్
Thai: th เซนต์ปีเตอร์สเบิร์ก
Tibetan: bo སན་པི་ཏི་པོག
Turkish: tr St. Petersburg, tr Sankt-Peterburg
Ottoman Turkish: ota پترسبورغ pétersbūrgh, ota سان پترسبورغ san petersbūrgh
Turkmen: tk Sankt-Peterburg
Ubykh: uby Баҭырбыф, uby Batərbəf
Ukrainian: uk Санкт-Петербу́рг m, uk Петербу́рг m
Urdu: ur سینٹ پیٹرز برگ m seṇṭ pīṭarz barg
Uyghur: ug سانكت پېتېربۇرگ
Uzbek: uz Sankt-Peterburg
Veps: vep Piter
Vietnamese: vi Xanh Pê-téc-bua, vi Thành Bỉ Đắc (vi 城彼得)
Votic: vot Petteri
Walloon: wa Sint Petersbork
Yakut: sah Санкт-Петербург, sah Бөтөрбүрүк, sah Бөтөрбүүр
Yiddish: yi פּעטערבורג n
city in Florida
Belarusian: be Сент-Пітэрсберг m
Bulgarian: bg Сейнт Питърсбърг m
Lithuanian: lt Sent Pitersbergas m
Polish: pl Saint Petersburg m-in
Russian: ru Сент-Питерсберг m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Сент Питерсбург m
Latin: sh Saint Petersburg m, sh Sent Pitersburg m
Ukrainian: uk Сент-Пітерсберг m
en eponyms exonyms