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((Short description|Names of the breakaway Moldavian republic))
((More citations needed|date=April 2022))
Although most commonly known in English as [[Transnistria]], the official name of the region is Pridnestrovie. Here is a detailed explanation of the names used for Transnistria, both official and unofficial, as they appear in the local languages and in English.

==Official names==
Transnistria has three official languages: [[Russian language|Russian]], [[Moldovan language|Moldavian]] (in the Cyrillic alphabet), and [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]. In each of the three national languages the name reads: 
 
*Russian: Приднестровская Молдавская Республика (Pridnestrovskaya Moldavskaya Respublika), abbreviated ПМР
*Moldavian Cyrillic: Република Молдовеняскэ Нистрянэ (Republica Moldovenească Nistreană), abbreviated РМН
*Ukrainian: Придністровська Молдавська Республіка (Prydnistrovs'ka Moldavs'ka Respublika), abbreviated ПМР

The abbreviations of each name in the official languages also appear on the Transnistrian [[Coat of arms of Transnistria|coat of arms]].

The [[Constitution of Transnistria]] gives the official name in Russian as Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublika (PMR).((Cn|date=February 2024))

Some authorities, such as the [[President of Transnistria|President's office]], translate this name to English as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.((Cn|date=February 2024)) The official abbreviation in English is PMR.

The official shortform name (the name in daily usage) in Russian is "Приднестровье", Pridnestrovie, which literally means "Cisdniestria". Short name in Romanian ''Nistrenia'' (''Нистреня'' in Cyrillic), in Ukrainian Придністров'я - ''Prydnistrovia''. The PMR government favours not to translate the country name when written in English.<ref>((cite web|url=http://pridnestrovie.info/news/whats-in-a-name-pridnestrovie-vs-transnistria|title=What's in a name: "Pridnestrovie" vs "Transnistria"|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721231952/http://pridnestrovie.info/news/whats-in-a-name-pridnestrovie-vs-transnistria|archive-date=2011-07-21|url-status=dead))</ref> Per a 2000 presidential naming decree, the official transliteration in Latin script is Pridnestrovie.

==Names used by Moldova==
The [[Government of Moldova]] refers to the area as the [[Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester|Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester (Transnistria)]]:<ref>((cite web |title=Regarding the basic provisions of the special legal status of the localities on the left side of the Dniester (Transnistria) |url=http://lex.justice.md/viewdoc.php?action=view&view=doc&id=313004&lang=1 |website=lex.justice.md/ |access-date=17 December 2022))</ref>
*Moldovan: Unitățile Administrativ-Teritoriale din stînga Nistrului (Transnistria)
*Russian: Административно-территориальные единицы левобережья Днестра (Приднестровья)
*Ukrainian: Автономне територіальне утворення з особливим правовим статусом Придністров'я (Придністров'я)

==Other names in use==
In Russian, the names used for Transnistria are always consistently either Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublica or Pridnestrovie (the two official names, long- and short- respectively). However, in English a wide variety of names have been used to describe the region, among them: Trans-Dniester, Transdnistria, Transdniestria, Transdniestr, Trans-Dniestria, Transdniester, Transniestria, Transdnestr, also Trans-Dnjestr and Trans-Dnjester.

The [[European Court of Human Rights]] used the name Moldavian Republic of Transdniestria or Moldovan Republic of Transnistria (MRT), while [[Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe]] and others sometimes refer to it as the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic (TMR). Author [[Charles King (professor of international affairs)|Charles King]], in his book ''The Moldovans'', uses the names Dnestr Republic and Dnestr Moldovan Republic (DMR).

==Naming background==
All of the names cited above have their root in the name of the river [[Dniester]]. In Romanian/Moldavian, the river is known as [[Nistru]]. The name "Transnistria" is Romanian/Moldavian and literally means "beyond the river Dniester". The name has been in use in Romania as early as 1924.((Citation needed|date=December 2020))

In both Russian and Ukrainian, the name has a more literal meaning as it is called "Cisdniestria" which means "On ''this'' side of the Dniester", "By-the-Dniester" or "On-the-Dniester" (as opposed to ''beyond'' the Dniester).

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110721231952/http://pridnestrovie.info/news/whats-in-a-name-pridnestrovie-vs-transnistria What's in a name: "Pridnestrovie" vs "Transnistria"] (English)
((europe topic|Name of|title=Names of European states and territories))

[[Category:Politics of Transnistria]]
[[Category:Place name etymologies|Transnistria]]

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