Frunze
See also: frunze
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian Фру́нзе (Frúnze); cognate with Romanian Frunză. From 1926–1991, the city was named after the Bolshevik military leader Mikhail Frunze, who was born here.
Pronunciation
- enPR: fro͞on′zə[1]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɹuːn.zə/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈfɹun.zə/
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈfɹʉːn.zə/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈfɹʉn.zə/
- (India) IPA(key): /ˈfɾuːn.ze/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -uːnzə
- Hyphenation: Frun‧ze[1]
Proper noun
Frunze
- (historical) Bishkek, the capital city of Kyrgyzstan.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “Frunze”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Further reading
- “Frunze”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.