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Odessa
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ODESSA
English
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thumb|Odessa Oblast (en Q171852)
thumb|Odessa Raion (en Q103755776)
Pronunciation
en /əʊˈdɛsə/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Odessa.wav Southern England
en /oʊˈdɛsə/ GA
en Odes sa
en ɛsə 3
Etymology 1
en ru Оде́сса, named after an Ancient Greek settlement thought to have been located nearby. en grc Ὀδησσός. Compare uk Оде́са. The city was on the former Turkish territory of Yedisan, which may have influenced the choice of name. Yedisan means "seven titles" i.e. tribes, from tr yedi + tr san.
Proper noun
en locale c/Ukraine:
en Q1874en port city/administrative center raion/Odessa and obl:also/Odessa c/Ukraine situated on the northwestern shore of the sea/Black Sea.
en Odesa
en Q103755776en raion obl/Odessa c/Ukraine Odessa.
en Odesa
en Q171852en oblast c/Ukraine Odessa.
en Odesa
en locale c/Canada:
en community township municipality:pref/Loyalist co/Lennox and Addington County p/Ontario c/Canada.
en village rurmun/Francis No. 127 p/Saskatchewan c/Canada.
en locale c/USA:
en ghost town co/Kings County s/California c/USA.
en small town co/New Castle County s/Delaware c/USA.
en census-designated place co/Pasco County s/Florida c/USA.
en tiny city co/Big Stone County s/Minnesota c/USA.
en city co/Lafayette County s/Missouri c/USA.
en census-designated place co/Buffalo County s/Nebraska c/USA.
en village co/Schuyler County s/New York c/USA.
en unincorporated community co/Klamath County s/Oregon c/USA.
en city/county seat co/Ector County s/Texas c/USA.
en small town co/Lincoln County s/Washington c/USA.
en unincorporated community co/Clay County s/West Virginia c/USA.
Derived terms
en Odessan Odessite Odessa Oblast Odessa Raion Little Odessa
Translations
city in Ukraine
Albanian: sq Odesa f definite
Arabic: ar أُودِيسَا f ʔudīsā, ar أُدِسَّة f
Armenian: hy Օդեսա
Azerbaijani: az Odessa, az Hacıbəy
Belarusian: be Адэ́са f
Bengali: bn ওডেসা
Bulgarian: bg Оде́са f
Burmese: my အိုဒက်ဆာ
Catalan: ca Odessa f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 敖德薩 Áodésà
Chuvash: cv Одесса, cv Хечипӳ
Crimean Tatar: crh Ades, crh Hacıbey
Czech: cs Oděsa f
Danish: da Odessa n
Dutch: nl Odessa n
Estonian: et Odessa
Finnish: fi Odessa
French: fr Odessa f
Georgian: ka ოდესა
German: de Odessa n
Greek: el Οδησσός
Hebrew: he אוֹדֶסָה f odésa
Hindi: hi ओडेसा m
Hungarian: hu Odessza
Italian: it Odessa, it Odesa, it Ginestra
Japanese: ja オデッサ Odessa
Kazakh: kk Одесса
Korean: ko ^오데사
Kyrgyz: ky Одесса
Latvian: lv Odesa f
Lithuanian: lt Odesa f
Macedonian: mk Оде́са f
Marathi: mr ओडेसा n, mr ओडेस्सा
Nogai: nog Аьжибий
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Odessa
Ossetian: os Одессӕ
Persian: fa اودسا Odesâ
Polish: pl Odessa f
Portuguese: pt Odessa f
Romanian: ro Odesa, ro Odessa
Russian: ru Оде́сса f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Одеса f
Latin: sh Odesa f
Slovak: sk Odesa f
Slovene: sl Odesa f
Spanish: es Odesa f, es Odessa f
Swedish: sv Odessa n
Tajik: tg Одесса
Tatar: tt Әдис, tt Хаҗибәй, tt Һаҗибәй
Thai: th โอเดสซา
Turkish: tr Hacıbey, tr Odessa
Ottoman Turkish: ota اودسه Odessa
Ukrainian: uk Оде́са f
Volapük: vo Odässa
Yiddish: yi אָדעס n
oblast of Ukraine
Belarusian: be Адэ́ская во́бласць f
Polish: pl obwód odeski m
Russian: ru Оде́сская о́бласть f
Swedish: sv Odessa n
Ukrainian: uk Оде́ська о́бласть f
American city
Marathi: mr ओडेसा
Swedish: sv Odessa n
See also
en Khadjibey Hacibey
Etymology 2
Uncertain; possibly from the placename, with usage influenced by the name en Odysseus.
Proper noun
en female.
31 July 1931 Trio Rob Ohio Bank; Pose as Rail FiremenGang with Machine Gun Invade Small Town and Get $40,000 in Cash and Securities. https://www.nytimes.com/1931/07/31/archives/trio-rob-ohio-bank-pose-as-rail-firemen-gang-with-machine-gun.html George Bixler, cashier, and Miss Odessa Moser, bookkeeper, were not suspicious when three men entered the bank at 10:15 A. M. wearing firemen's blue jackets and jumpers and with their faces smeared as though with engine grease.
16 August 1935 Hahn-Milford https://www.nytimes.com/1935/08/16/archives/hahn-mhford.html The marriage of Miss Odessa Elizabeth Milford, daughter of J. Davis Milford of Columbus, Ga., and the late Mrs. Milford, to Theodore John Hahn, son of Mrs. Theodore F. Hahn and the late Rev. John Hahn of Baltimore, took place this afternoon at Brown Memorial Church with the Rev. Dr. J. Ross Stevenson, president of Princeton Theological Seminary, officiating.
12 November 1961 Mrs. Arthur Donnelly https://www.nytimes.com/1961/11/12/archives/mrs-arthur-donnelly.html Mrs. Odessa Wright Donnelly, who retired after thirty years' service with the Harlem Young Women's Christian Association in 1957, died Friday at her home at 246 West 150th Street after a short illness.
Catalan
ca:
Pronunciation
è ? ?
Proper noun
f
ca oblast c/Ukraine Odessa
ca city/administrative center obl/Odessa c/Ukraine Odessa
Dutch
Alternative forms
nl Odesa
Etymology
From nl ru Оде́сса.
Pronunciation
nl Nl-Odessa.ogg
Proper noun
n
nl Odessa, a <<city>> and <<oblast>> in <<c/Ukraine>>.
Further reading
nl
Italian
it:
Proper noun
f
it oblast c/Ukraine Odessa
it city/administrative center obl/Odessa c/Ukraine Odessa
Anagrams
it adeoss adesso
it exonyms
Polish
pl:
Etymology
pl ru Оде́сса, named after an Ancient Greek settlement thought to have been located nearby, from pl grc Ὀδησσός.
Pronunciation
LL-Q809 (pol)-Olaf-Odessa.wav
Proper noun
f odeski
pl oblast c/Ukraine Odessa
pl city/administrative center obl/Odessa c/Ukraine Odessa
Declension
<f.sg>
Further reading
pl exonyms
Portuguese
Etymology
pt :bor uk:Одеса + 1
Pronunciation
Odéssa
pt O des sa
Proper noun
f
pt oblast c/Ukraine Odessa
pt city/administrative center obl/Odessa c/Ukraine Odessa
Spanish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f
es Odesa
Turkish
tr:
Etymology
tr :der uk:Оде́са + 1
Proper noun
tr city c/Ukraine Odessa
Declension