A river of north-western Ukraine and southern Belarus, which rises in Ukraine near the border with Poland and flows some 710 km (440 miles) eastwards through the Pripyat Marshes to join the River Dnieper north of Kiev.
Definition of Pripyat in US English:
Pripyat
(also Pripet)
proper nounˈprēpyit
A river in northwestern Ukraine and southern Belarus that rises in Ukraine near the border with Poland and flows about 440 miles (710 km) east through the Pripyat Marshes to join the Dnieper River north of Kiev.