gubernia

gubernia (plural gubernias or gubernii)

1. Alternative form of guberniya.
   • 1982, Vsevolod Holubnychy, “The 1917 Agrarian Revolution in Ukraine”, in Iwan S. Koropeckyj, editor, Soviet Regional Economics: Selected Works of Vsevolod Holubnychy (The Canadian Library in Ukrainian Studies), Edmonton, Alta.: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, →ISBN, section I (Studies on Ukrainian Social and Political History), page 53:

     Soviet Russian troops entered Kharkiv on 7 (20) December 1917; on 12 December they also attacked from the north across Chernihiv gubernia. By mid-February 1918, the gubernii of Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Poltava and Katerynoslav were under complete Bolshevik control; […]

   • 1995, Robert E[dward] Blobaum, “Russian State, Polish Society”, in Rewolucja: Russian Poland, 1904–1907, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, published 2016, →ISBN, pages 4–6:

     In the gubernii, governors served as the highest administrative authority and together with their executive organs supervised the work of provincial-level departments.

   • 2017, Nancy Shields Kollmann, “Army and Administration”, in The Russian Empire 1450–1801, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part III (The Century of Empire: Russia in the Eighteenth Century), page 307:

     Even before the administrative reform (1775), new gubernii were being created as territories were added or consolidated on the borderlands. Activity was prodigious in 1764. Siberia’s sole, huge gubernia at Tobolsk was divided to create a gubernia at Irkutsk.

From Latin gubernia.

gubernia

1. plural of gubernium

• Abu Grein, Rugbeian

Borrowed from Russian губе́рния (gubérnija).

• IPA^(key): /ɡuˈbɛr.ɲa/

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• Rhymes: -ɛrɲa
• Syllabification: gu‧ber‧nia

gubernia f

1. (historical) guberniya

• gubernia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• gubernia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡuberni̯a]

gubernia f (relational adjective guberniálny or gubernský)

1. (historical) guberniya

• “gubernia”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025