jassy

noun

1. a city in NE Romania.

noun

1. a region in NE Romania: formerly a principality that united with Wallachia to form Romania. Capital: Jassy.
2. Official name Moldova. Formerly Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in SE Europe: formed in 1940 from the former republic of Moldavia and the ceded Romanian territory of Bessarabia. 13,100 sq. mi. (33,929 sq. km). Capital: Kishinev.

noun

1. the German name for Iaşi

noun

1. another name for Moldova
2. a former principality of E Europe, consisting of the basins of the Rivers Prut and Dniester: the E part (Bessarabia) became Moldova; the W part remains a province of Romania

Latinized form of Moldova.