Ukraine

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See also: Ukraîne

English

Location of Ukraine (Crimea, controlled by Russia, is in light-green)

Alternative forms

Etymology

1651 Ukrain, 1671 Ukraine, 1688 Ucrania, Ukrania, 1762 Ocraine. Adaptation of Polish Ukraina, Russian Украи́на (Ukraína), or Ukrainian Украї́на (Ukrajína), from the specific use, originally meaning “borderland”, “marches” or “insideland”. From Old East Slavic ꙋкраина (ukraina), from оу (u, “at”) + краи (krai, “edge”), or край (kraj, “land”). Details in Wikipedia: Name of Ukraine.

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /juːˈkɹeɪn/
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /juˈkɹeɪn/, /ˈjuˌkɹeɪn/, [ju̟ˈkɹeɪ̯n], [ˈjuˌkɹeɪ̯n]
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪn

Proper noun

Ukraine

  2. A country in Eastern Europe; was long part of the Russian Empire and Austro-Hungarian Empire, then of the Soviet Union.

Usage notes

Since the country's independence in 1991, style guides recommend Ukraine (as in “a musician from Ukraine”), without an article. Previously, the most common usage was the Ukraine (as in “a musician from the Ukraine”).[1]

Translations

See also

References

  1. ^ Tom Geoghegan (2012 June 7) “Ukraine or the Ukraine: Why do some country names have 'the'?”, in BBC News Magazine‎[1], archived from the original on 28 October 2016

Further reading

Danish

Proper noun

Ukraine

  1. Ukraine

French

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Ukraine f

  1. Ukraine
    • 1731: Voltaire, Histoire de Charles XII, p 161:
      L’Ukraine a toujours aspiré à être libre : mais étant entourée de la Moscovie, des états du grand-seigneur, et de la Pologne, il lui a fallu chercher un protecteur, et par conséquent un maître dans l’un de ces trois états. Elle se mit d’abord sous la protection de la Pologne qui la traita trop en sujette : elle se donna depuis au Moscovite, qui la gouverna en esclave autant qu’il le put. D’abord les Ukrainiens jouirent du privilège d’élire un prince sous le nom de général ; mais bientôt ils furent dépouillés de ce droit, et leur général fut nommé par la cour de Moscou. (Ukraine has always aspired to be free: but being surrounded by Muscovy, the states of the Sultan, and Poland, a protector had to be sought, and consequently a master in one of these three states. She first put herself under the protection of Poland, who treated her too much as subject. She then gave herself to the Muscovite, who governed her as a slave as much as he could. At first the Ukrainians enjoyed the privilege of electing a prince under the name of general; but soon they were stripped of this right, and their general was appointed by the court of Moscow.)

German

German Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia de

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ukʁaˈiːnə/, /uˈkʁaɪ̯nə/
  • Audio:(file)

Proper noun

Ukraine f (genitive Ukraine or Ukraines, plural Ukrainen)

  1. Ukraine

Declension

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