"Donbass" meaning in English

See Donbass in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: From Russian Донба́сс (Donbáss), abbreviation of Доне́цкий бассе́йн (Donéckij basséjn, “Donets Basin”), after Доне́ц (Donéc, “Donets River”) + бассе́йн (basséjn, “basin”). Compare Donbas, from Ukrainian. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ru|Донба́сс}} Russian Донба́сс (Donbáss) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Donbass
  1. Alternative form of Donbas Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: Donbas
    Sense id: en-Donbass-en-name-MHZWhC51 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for Donbass meaning in English (1.5kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ru",
        "3": "Донба́сс"
      },
      "expansion": "Russian Донба́сс (Donbáss)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Russian Донба́сс (Donbáss), abbreviation of Доне́цкий бассе́йн (Donéckij basséjn, “Donets Basin”), after Доне́ц (Donéc, “Donets River”) + бассе́йн (basséjn, “basin”). Compare Donbas, from Ukrainian.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Donbass",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "Donbas"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 March 25, Idrees Ali, Phil Stewart, “U.S. sees Russia focusing on eastern Ukraine, senior U.S. defense official says”, in Chizu Nomiyama, Daniel Wallis, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-03-25, World",
          "text": "The United States assesses that Russia is prioritizing eastern Ukraine's Donbass, as opposed to Kyiv, in what could be an effort to build leverage in negotiations and cut off Ukrainian forces in the east from the rest of the country, a senior U.S. defense official said on Friday.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of Donbas"
      ],
      "id": "en-Donbass-en-name-MHZWhC51",
      "links": [
        [
          "Donbas",
          "Donbas#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Donbass"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ru",
        "3": "Донба́сс"
      },
      "expansion": "Russian Донба́сс (Donbáss)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Russian Донба́сс (Donbáss), abbreviation of Доне́цкий бассе́йн (Donéckij basséjn, “Donets Basin”), after Доне́ц (Donéc, “Donets River”) + бассе́йн (basséjn, “basin”). Compare Donbas, from Ukrainian.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Donbass",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "Donbas"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Russian",
        "English terms derived from Russian",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 March 25, Idrees Ali, Phil Stewart, “U.S. sees Russia focusing on eastern Ukraine, senior U.S. defense official says”, in Chizu Nomiyama, Daniel Wallis, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-03-25, World",
          "text": "The United States assesses that Russia is prioritizing eastern Ukraine's Donbass, as opposed to Kyiv, in what could be an effort to build leverage in negotiations and cut off Ukrainian forces in the east from the rest of the country, a senior U.S. defense official said on Friday.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of Donbas"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Donbas",
          "Donbas#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Donbass"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.