kopek

See also: kópék, köpek, and köpək

English

Alternative forms

• copeck, kopeck
• kopeika, kopejka, kopeyka

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian копе́йка (kopéjka), from копьё (kopʹjó, “spear”) (from the image of a rider with a spear on the coins minted by Moscow after the capture of Novgorod in 1478). Doublet of kopeika, kopiyka, and kapeek.

Pronunciation

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Noun

kopek (plural kopeks)

1. A Russian monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a ruble.
   • 2019 May 14, “Russia stops minting kopeks”, in Invest Foresight‎^[1]:

     The Central Bank discontinued minting kopeks gradually. In 2012, the regulatory body stopped minting one-kopek and five-kopek coins. In 2018, the Central Bank stopped minting kopeks completely and now mints only ruble coins.

2. A kopiyka: a Ukrainian monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a hryvnia.
3. A kapiejka: a Belarusian monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a ruble (rubel).

Usage notes

Kopek is the favored spelling used by The Moscow Times, whereas some English dictionaries prefer kopeck.

Translations

one-hundredth of a ruble

• Albanian: kopek (sq) m
• Altai:

  Northern Altai: оок акча (ook akča)

  Southern Altai: бир акча (bir akča), копейка (kopeyka)

• Arabic: كُوبِيك m (kubīk), كُوبِيك m (kōpek)
• Armenian: կոպեկ (hy) (kopek)
• Azerbaijani: qəpik (az)
• Bashkir: тин (tin)
• Belarusian: капе́йка f (kapjéjka)
• Bulgarian: копе́йка f (kopéjka)
• Buryat: мүнгэн (müngen)
• Catalan: copec (ca) m
• Chechen: кепек (kepek)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 戈比 (zh) (gēbǐ)

• Circassian:

  East Circassian: кӏэпейкӏэ (kʼɛpejkʼɛ)

  West Circassian: чапыч (čapəč)

• Crimean Tatar: kapik
• Czech: kopejka f, kopějka (cs) f
• Danish: kopek c
• Dargwa: кепек (kepek)
• Dutch: kopeke (nl) f
• Esperanto: kopeko (eo)
• Estonian: kopikas (et)
• Finnish: kopeekka (fi)
• French: kopeck (fr) m
• Georgian: კაპიკი (ḳaṗiḳi)
• German: Kopeke (de) f
• Greek: καπίκι (el) n (kapíki)
• Hebrew: קוֹפֵּקָה f
• Hindi: कोपेक (kopek)
• Hungarian: kopejka (hu), kopek (hu)
• Ingrian: kopekka
• Italian: copeco (it) m
• Japanese: コペイカ (kopeika)
• Kalmyk: деншг (denşg)
• Kazakh: тиын (tiyn)
• Korean: 코페이카 (kopeika)
• Kumyk: кепек (kepek)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kapêk

• Kyrgyz: тыйын (ky) (tıyın)
• Lak: кӏапӏик (kʼapʼik)
• Latvian: kapeika f
• Lithuanian: kapeika f
• Macedonian: копејка f (kopejka)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: копейк (kopejk)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kopek m

• Ossetian: капекк (kapekk)
• Pashto: کوپېک m (kopék)
• Persian: کوپک (kopek)
• Polish: kopiejka (pl) f
• Portuguese: copeque (pt) m
• Romanian: copeică (ro) f
• Russian: копе́йка (ru) f (kopéjka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: копејка f

  Latin: kopejka f

• Slovak: kopejka f
• Slovene: kopejka f
• Spanish: copeca (es) f, cópec (es) f, kópek (es) f
• Swedish: kopek (sv) c
• Tagalog: kopek
• Tajik: тин (tin)
• Tatar: тиен (tt) (tiyen)
• Turkish: kopek (tr), kopeyka, kapik (tr)
• Turkmen: teňňe, köpük
• Udmurt: копейка (kopejka)
• Ukrainian: копі́йка (uk) f (kopíjka)
• Uyghur: تىيىن (ug) (tiyin)
• Uzbek: tiyin (uz), kopeyka
• Vietnamese: cô pêch, cô-pêch, côpêch
• Volapük: kopek
• Yakut: харчы (qarčï)
• Yiddish: קאָפּעקע f (kopeke)

See also

• kopiyka

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkopɛk]

Noun

kopek f

1. genitive plural of kopka

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian копе́йка (kopéjka).

Noun

kopek m (plural kopeks)

1. kopek

Further reading

• “kopek”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025