Submitted Name
SaveType Settlement
Usage Arabic, Belarusian, Chechen, Danish, English, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Tajik, Ukrainian
Scripts سوخومي(Arabic) Сухумі(Belarusian, Ukrainian) Сухуми(Chechen, Russian) سوخومی(Persian) Сухумӣ(Tajik)
[Meaning & History
From Georgian სოხუმი (soxumi), which is of uncertain origin. It may be from Georgian ციხე (cixe) meaning "fortress" combined with the suffix ომი (-omi) denoting a geographical location or from Svan ცხუმ (cxum) meaning "hornbeam". This is the name of capital city of Abkhazia.