Ukraine

• Ucrania, Ukrain, Ukrainia, Ukrania (all obsolete)
• Ukraina (rare)

Borrowed from Polish Ukraina or Russian Украи́на (Ukraína), from Old East Slavic оукраина (ukraina), which is most commonly taken to have meant "borderland, marches" in this context, though for about a century now Ukrainian scholars have articulated an alternative theory that it meant "region, country, the land around (a given center)" in this context instead. See Name of Ukraine on Wikipedia for more.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /juːˈkɹeɪn/, /ˈjuːkɹeɪn/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /juːˈkɹeɪn/, /ˈjuːkɹeɪn/, /ʊˈkɹeɪn/, /ˈʊkɹeɪn/

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• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /jʉˈkɾen/, /ˈjʉkɾen/
• (Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /jʉˈkɻeˑən/, /ˈjʉkɻeˑən/
• (Wales, without the pane–pain merger) IPA^(key): /jɪʊˈkɾein/, /ˈjɪʊkɾein/
• Rhymes: -eɪn

Ukraine or the Ukraine

2. A country in Eastern Europe, bordering on the north shore of the Black Sea. Capital and largest city: Kyiv.
   • 2023 March 24, Rhea Mogul, “Russia can’t meet India arms deliveries due to Ukraine war, Indian Air Force says”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     An IAF representative told an Indian parliamentary committee that due to the Ukraine war a “major delivery” from Moscow “is not going to take place.”

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ukraine.

• Since the country's independence in 1991, Ukraine without an article (as in “a musician from Ukraine”) has been the most common way to refer to the country^[1] and is recommended by style guides. Previously, it was more common to refer to the Ukraine (as in “a musician from the Ukraine”),^[2][3] but this has become increasingly uncommon. One reason why Ukrainians suggest their country's English name should not be addressed as the Ukraine is due to the Ukraine making it sound like it was a part of Russia, promoting Russian irredentist views or supporting the 2022 Russian war against the country.

• → Assamese: ইউক্ৰেইন (iukrein)
• → Bengali: ইউক্রেন (iukren)
• → Cherokee: ᏯᎧᏪᏂ (yakaweni), ᏳᎬᎳᎢᏅ (yugvlainv)
• → Chinese: 烏克蘭 / 乌克兰 (Wūkèlán)
  • → Vietnamese: Ô Khắc Lan
• → Dhivehi: ޔުކްރެއިން (yuk̊rein̊)
• → Gujarati: યૂક્રેઇન (yūkreina)
• → Hawaiian: ʻUkelena
• → Hindi: यूक्रेन (yūkren)
• → Kannada: ಯುಕ್ರೇನ್ (yukrēn)
• → Malay: Ukraine, Ukraina
• → Malayalam: യുക്രെയിൻ (yukreyiṉ)
• → Māori: Ūkareinga
• → Marathi: युक्रेन (yukren)
• → Nepali: युक्रेन (yukrena)
• → Odia: ୟୁକ୍ରେନ (yukrena)
• → Punjabi: ਯੂਕ੍ਰੇਨ (yūkren)
• → Samoan: 'Iukureini
• → Sinhalese: යුක්රේන් (yukrēn)
• → Telugu: ఉక్రెయిన్ (ukreyin)
• → Thai: ยูเครน (yuu-kreen)
• → Tigrinya: ዩክረይን (yukräyn)
• → Tongan: ʻIukuleini
• → Ukrainian: Юкре́йн (Jukréjn)
• → Urdu: یُوکْرین (yūkren)
• → Yoruba: Yukíréènì

• breadbasket of Europe
• Ruthenia
• Little Russia
• Ukrainian SSR

• Countries of the world

• Ukraine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Cognate with German Ukraine.

• IPA^(key): /ukraˈiːnə/

Ukraine

1. Ukraine (a country in Eastern Europe, bordering on the north shore of the Black Sea)

From Ukrainian Украї́на (Ukrajína) or Russian Украи́на (Ukraína), from Old East Slavic оукраина (ukraina).

Ukraine

1. Ukraine (a country in Eastern Europe, bordering on the north shore of the Black Sea)

• ukrainer
• ukrainsk

• Oukraïne, Ukraïne (rare)

Borrowed from Ukrainian Украї́на (Ukrajína) or Russian Украи́на (Ukraína), from Old East Slavic оукраина (ukraina).

• IPA^(key): /y.kʁɛn/

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Ukraine f

1. Ukraine (a country in Eastern Europe, bordering on the north shore of the Black Sea)
   • 1731, Voltaire, Histoire de Charles XII, page 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.

• Haitian Creole: Ikrèn
• → Iranian Persian: اوکراین (okrâyn)
• → Khmer: អ៊ុយក្រែន (ʼuykraen)
• → Lao: ອູກະແລນ (ʼū ka lǣn)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [ˌukʁaˈʔiːnə], [ˌukʁaˈiːnə] (in faster speech)

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• IPA^(key): [uˈkʁaɪ̯nə] (less common)

die Ukraine f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Ukraine)

1. Ukraine (a country in Eastern Europe, bordering on the north shore of the Black Sea)

• Normally used with the definite article. Very occasionally, Ukraine occurs without a definite article; in such cases a genitive Ukraines may occur. In such usages, the gender is unclear.
• Even more rarely, a plural Ukrainen may occur.

• Kleinrussland (“Little Russia”) (historical)

• Ruthenien (“Ruthenia”)

• “Ukraine” in Duden online
• “Ukraine”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[3] (in German)
• Ukraine on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Borrowed from English Ukraine

• IPA^(key): /juˈkrejn/ [juˈkrejn] (English-based)

Ukraine (Jawi spelling يوکرىين)

1. Ukraine (a country in Eastern Europe, bordering on the north shore of the Black Sea)

   Synonym: Ukraina

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Ukraine

1. Ukraine (a country in Eastern Europe, bordering on the north shore of the Black Sea)

   Synonym: Ukraini