Etymology

Kuybyshev

K5U1Y4B3Y4S1H4E1V4

Today it means: Samara, a city in Russia. Full definition →

Russian Куйбышев
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Russian · borrowed fromКуйбышев
  2. English todayKuybyshev

From Russian Куйбышев (Kujbyšev), named after Russian Bolshevik revolutionary Valerian Kuybyshev (1888–1935).

First known use, by meaning

  • from 1935 to 1990 Samara, a city in Russia.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.