Ukraine

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Location of Ukraine

Alternative forms

• Ocraine (obsolete)
• Ukrain (obsolete)
• Ukrania, Ucrania (obsolete)

Etymology

1688 Ucrania, Ukrain, Ukraine, Ukrania, 1762 Ocraine. Adaptation of Polish Ukraina, Russian Украина (Ukraína), or Ukrainian Україна (Ukraḯna), from the specific use, originally meaning “borderland”, “marches” or “insideland”. From Old East Slavic Оукраина (Ukraina), from оу (u, “at”) + краи (krai, “edge”), or край (край, “land”). Details in Wikipedia: Name of Ukraine.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /juˈkɹeɪn/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪn

Proper noun

Ukraine

1. A country in Eastern Europe; was long part of the Russian Empire, then of the Soviet Union. Official name: Ukraine.

Usage notes

Since the country's independence in 1991, style guides recommend Ukraine, without an article. Previously, the most common usage was the Ukraine.

Translations

Eastern European country

• Abkhaz: Украина (ab) (Ukraina)
• Afrikaans: Oekraïne (af)
• Albanian: Ukraina (sq)
• Arabic: أوكرانيا (ar) ('ukraaniya) f
• Armenian: Ուկրաինա (hy) (Ukraina)
• Azeri: Ukrayna (az)
• Basque: Ukraina (eu)
• Belarusian: Украіна (be) (Ukraína) f
• Bengali: ইউক্রেন (bn) (yukren)
• Breton: Ukraina (br)
• Bulgarian: Украйна (bg) (Ukrájna)
• Burmese: ယူကရိန်းနိုင်ငံ (my) (yukărein: nainggan)
• Catalan: Ucraïna (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᏯᎧᏪᏂ (chr) (Yukaweni)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 烏克蘭 (cmn), 乌克兰 (cmn) (Wūkèlán)

• Crimean Tatar: Ukraina
• Czech: Ukrajina (cs) f
• Danish: Ukraine (da)
• Dutch: Oekraïne (nl)
• Esperanto: Ukrainio (eo), Ukrainujo (eo), Ukrajno (eo)
• Estonian: Ukraina (et)
• Faroese: Ukraina (fo) n
• Finnish: Ukraina (fi)
• French: Ukraine (fr)
• Galician: Ucraína (gl) f
• Georgian: უკრაინა (ka) (ukraina)
• German: Ukraine (de) f
• Greek: Ουκρανία (el) (Oukranía) f
• Gujarati: યુક્રેન (gu) (yukren)
• Hawaiian: ʻUkelena
• Hebrew: אוקראינה (he) (Ukraína)
• Hindi: यूक्रेन (hi) (yūkren) m
• Hungarian: Ukrajna (hu)
• Icelandic: Úkraína (is) f
• Indonesian: Ukraina (id)
• Irish: An Úcráin (ga) f
• Italian: Ucraina (it) f
• Japanese: ウクライナ (ja) (Ukuraina)
• Kannada: ಯುಕ್ರೇನ್ (kn) (yukren)
• Kazakh: Украина (kk) (Ukraina)
• Khmer: អ៊ុយក្រែន (km) (uykraen)
• Korean: 우크라이나 (ko) (Ukeuraina)
• Kyrgyz: Украина (ky) (Ukraina)

• Lao: ອູແກຣນ (lo) (ūklǣn)
• Latvian: Ukraina (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Ukraina (lt) f
• Macedonian: Украина (mk) (Ukráina) f
• Malay: Ukraine (ms)
• Malayalam: യുക്രെയിൻ (ml)
• Maltese: l-Ukrajna (mt)
• Marathi: युक्रेन (mr) (yukren)
• Mongolian: Украйн (mn) (Ukrayn)
• Navajo: Yóókwein
• Nepali: युक्रेन (ne) (yukren)
• Norwegian: Ukraina (no)
• Old Church Slavonic: Оукраина
• Persian: اوکراین (fa) (Ukrâyn), اوکرائین (fa) (Ukrâ'in)
• Polish: Ukraina (pl) f
• Portuguese: Ucrânia (pt) f
• Romanian: Ucraina (ro) f
• Russian: Украина (ru) (Ukraína) f
• Rusyn: Україна (Ukrajína) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: У̀крајина (sh) f

  Latin: Ùkrajina (sh) f

• Silesian: Ukrajina f
• Sinhalese: යුක්රේන් (si) (yukren)
• Slovak: Ukrajina (sk) f
• Slovene: Ukrajína (sl) f
• Spanish: Ucrania (es) f
• Swahili: Ukraini (sw)
• Swedish: Ukraina (sv)
• Tagalog: Ukranya (tl)
• Tajik: Украйина (tg) (Ukrayina)
• Tamil: உக்ரைன் (ta) (ukraiṉ)
• Tatar: Украина (tt) (Ukraina)
• Telugu: ఉక్రెయిన్ (te) (ukreyin)
• Thai: ยูเครน (th) (yookrayn), ประเทศ ยูเครน (th) (bpràtâyt yookrayn)
• Turkish: Ukrayna (tr)
• Turkmen: Ukraina (tk)
• Ukrainian: Україна (uk) (Ukrajína) f
• Urdu: یوکرین (ur) (yūkren) m
• Uzbek: Ukraina (uz)
• Vietnamese: Ukraina (vi)
• Welsh: Wcráin (cy)
• Yiddish: אוקראַינע (yi) (Ukraíne)

See also

• Appendix:Place names in Ukraine
• (countries of Europe) country of Europe; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City ^{(Categories: en:Countries, en:Countries of Europe)}
• Countries of the world
• Little Russia
• Ruthenia

Related terms

• Ukrainian
• Ukrainian SSR

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

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Danish

Proper noun

Ukraine

1. Ukraine

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French

Pronunciation

• audio

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Proper noun

Ukraine f

1. Ukraine

Related terms

• ukrainien
• Ukrainien

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German

Wikipedia ^de

Proper noun

Ukraine f

1. Ukraine

Related terms

• ukrainisch
• Ukrainisch
• Ukrainer
• Ukrainerin