Dynamo

See also: dynamo

English

From Russian Динамо (Dinamo) and cognates in other languages, including Serbo-Croatian Dinamo and German Dynamo.

Dynamo

Dynamo Sports Club, a national sporting association in the Soviet Union, and other similiar organisations in other socialist countries and their successor states.
Any of various football clubs and other sports teams linked to a Dynamo association, including Dynamo Berlin, Dynamo Dresden, Dynamo Kyiv and Dinamo Zagreb in soccer and HC Dynamo Moscow in ice hockey.
- 1990, Lawrence Martin, The Red Machine: The Soviet Quest to Dominate Canada's Game:
  The only Dynamo player to win the most valuable player award in Soviet hockey history was Maltsev.
- 2018 April 19, Paul Dietschy, Origins and Birth of the Europe of football, Routledge, →ISBN:
  Following elimination at the hands of Liverpool in the quarter-finals of the same tournament two years later, Hänel lamented that the 'nervousness' of the Dynamo team allowed the English club to progress comfortably to the next round.
- 2023 November 30, Thomas M. Wilson, Europe: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society [2 volumes], Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN:
  He was thrice elected head coach during Soviet times and thrice became Dynamo's head coach. He dedicated many years to the club. Following his death, Lobanovskyi was awarded the title Hero of Ukraine, the nation's highest honor.

After English dynamo, from dynamo-electric machine, itself from German dynamoelektrische Maschine, coined by Werner von Siemens, based on Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”).

Dynamo m (strong, genitive Dynamos, plural Dynamos)

Dynamo n or m (proper noun, strong, genitive Dynamos)

Part of, and short form for, the names of several sports clubs in former East Germany, especially Dynamo Dresden and Berliner FC Dynamo.