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Kishinev

American  
[kish-uh-nef, -nawf, kyi-shi-nyawf] / ˈkɪʃ əˌnɛf, -ˌnɔf, kjɪ ʃɪˈnjɔf /

noun

  1. a city in and the capital of Moldova, in the central part.


Kishinev British  
/ kiʃiˈnjɔf /

noun

  1. the Russian name for Chişinǎu

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“In the same Kishinev, right now, we’re saving Jews,” Mr. Bennett added.

From New York Times Mar. 7, 2022

Lieberman, who is sixty, was born in Kishinev, now in Moldova—the site of an infamous pogrom in 1903.

From The New Yorker Jun. 1, 2019

And there’s no better place to start than Kishinev.

From New York Times Jul. 24, 2018

The same is with Nistru and Chisinau to the opposite of Russian spelling Dniestr and Kishinev.

From Economist Nov. 19, 2013

Perhaps to this day they linger sere and yellow in some forgotten pigeon-hole in Kishinev or Ekaterinoslav....

From The Research Magnificent by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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