The story
- Ukrainian · borrowed fromЗапорі́жжя“place beyond the rapids”
- English todayZaporizhzhia
From the historical region of the same name, Ukrainian Запорі́жжя (Zaporížžja, “place beyond the rapids”), from за (za, “beyond”) + поро́ги (poróhy, “rapids”), plural of порі́г (poríh, “river rapid, threshold”). Compare Russian Запоро́жье (Zaporóžʹje).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.