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WOTD – 14 October 2022
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Etymology

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The Ukrainian(adjective sense)nationalflag.
Mykola Podrezan, adisabled Ukrainian(noun sense) who hasvisited 50countries of theworld.

FromUkraine +‎-ian(suffix meaning ‘from; like; related to’, formingadjectives; or ‘one belonging to, from, like, or relating to’, formingnouns).[1]

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Adjective

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Ukrainian (notcomparable)

  1. Relating toUkraine or itspeople orlanguage.
    • 1762,George Saleet al., “Sect. III. Language, Learning, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce of Russia.”, inThe Modern Part of An Universal History, From the Earliest Account of Time. [], volume XXXV, London: [] T[homas] Osborne, [],→OCLC,page155:
      TheMuſcovite,Novogrodian, andUkrainian dialects, are the moſt uſed inRuſſia, together with that ofArchangel, which greatly reſembles theSiberian.
    • 1799,William Tooke, “Section IV. Agriculture.”, inView of the Russian Empire During the Reign ofCatharine the Second and to the Close of the Present Century. [], volume III, London: [] T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, []; andJ[ohn] Debrett, [],→OCLC, book X (Social State of the Inhabitants),page263:
      Theukrainian peaſantry ſovv far more ſummer-grain, becauſe the vvinter-ſovving in their vvet and ſnovvleſs vvinters is apt to rot and ſo to render the harveſt doubtful, vvhich in the northern provinces is exactly the reverſe. Inſtead of the light hook-plough, they uſe the large heavyukrainian plough, and for the horſe vvhich in Ruſſia is almoſt the only beaſt uſed for ploughing, here oxen are put to, of vvhich ſometimes eight are ſeen harneſſed to one plough.
    • 1883, Stepniak [i.e.,Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky], “Preface”, inUnderground Russia: Revolutionary Profiles and Sketches from Life [], New York, N.Y.:Charles Scribner’s Sons,page vii:
      In fact, the publications of the Revolutionists which have been issued during the last three years abroad and from the secret press of St. Petersburg, present a rich source of information respecting the modern Revolutionary movement, but all these materials, being in the Russian orUkrainian language, have scarcely contributed anything to the works written in other languages, and have remained for the most part unknown to Europe.
    • 1995 August 12, “700-year-old oak in Ukraine dies”, inThe Times-News, volume90, number224, Twin Falls, Ida.: Times-News Pub. Co.,→OCLC,pageA-7, column 1:
      The 118-foot tree grew-on the southernUkrainian island of Khortitsa, which lies in the middle of the Dnipro River and once was home to Ukraine's largest Cossack settlement.
    • 1998,George [Herbert Walker] Bush,Brent Scowcroft, “A House Divides”, inA World Transformed (A Borzoi Book), New York, N.Y.:Alfred A[braham] Knopf,→ISBN,page515:
      From Moscow on August 1, we flew down to Kiev for a quick visit to Ukraine and a meeting withLeonid Kravchuk, chairman of theUkrainian Supreme Soviet.
    • 2022 May 12, “Ukrainian summits Everest ‘for her people’ as records tumble”, inFrance 24[1], archived fromthe original on12 May 2022:
      Everest saw a clutch of records on Thursday including the most summits for a woman and the first all-Black team – and aUkrainian climber reached the top of the world for her war-torn country.[] The wave of summits also saw the onlyUkrainian climber this season, Antonina Samoilova reach the top with her country's flag, her expedition company 14 Peaks Expedition confirmed.
    • 2022 June 28, “Kyiv asks US to Label Russia State Terror Sponsor as Mall Strike Toll Rises”, inEFE[2], archived fromthe original on28 June 2022:
      Ukraine's president on Tuesday urged Washington to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism after a missile strike on a crowded shopping mall in the centralUkrainian city of Kremenchuk killed at least 18 people.
    • 2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, inRAIL, number1017, page49:
      My son, a Canada-based IT professional who often travels to Ukraine, told me about the exhilarating atmosphere on those Ukraine-bound trains, bringing home hundreds of the unwilling refugees, mostly women and children (including the babies, born in exile on the way to meet theirUkrainian fighter fathers for the first time). The difference betweenUkrainian refugees and other reluctant exiles is that Ukrainians are desperate to return.

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Synonyms

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Translations

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relating to Ukraine or its people

Noun

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Ukrainian (pluralUkrainians)

  1. Acitizen ofUkraine or aperson ofUkrainianethnicity.
    • 1799,William Tooke, “Section IV. The Form of Government.”, inView of the Russian Empire During the Reign ofCatharine the Second and to the Close of the Present Century. [], volume II, London: [] T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, []; andJ[ohn] Debrett, [],→OCLC, book V (The Government of the Empire, or the Monarch),page433:
      In general, it is permitted the ſubjects to utter their complaints and to make a repreſentation of them. Thus, the nobility may ſend deputies: this theUkrainians have long been accuſtomed to do, as also the Livonians and Eſthonians:[]
    • 1803,Mary Hays, “Catherine II. (Concluded.)”, inFemale Biography; or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of All Ages and Countries. [], volume III, London: [] Richard Phillips, [][b]yThomas Davison, [],→OCLC,page129:
      Zavadoffsky, a youngUkrainian, was favoured in private with the smiles of the empress [Catherine the Great].
    • 1886,W. R. M., “RUSSIA”, inThe Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 9th edition, volume XXI, Edinburgh:Adam and Charles Black,→OCLC,page80, column 2:
      In western Russia, while an antipathy exists betweenUkrainians and Poles, the Russian Government, by its harassing interference in religious, educational, and economical matters, has become antagonistic, not only to the Poles, but also to theUkrainians; printing in Ukrainian is prohibited, and "Russification" is being carried on amongUkrainians by the same means as those employed in Poland.
    • 2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, inRAIL, number1017, page49:
      My son, a Canada-based IT professional who often travels to Ukraine, told me about the exhilarating atmosphere on those Ukraine-bound trains, bringing home hundreds of the unwilling refugees, mostly women and children (including the babies, born in exile on the way to meet their Ukrainian fighter fathers for the first time). The difference between Ukrainian refugees and other reluctant exiles is thatUkrainians are desperate to return.

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citizen of Ukraine or a person of Ukrainian ethnicity

Proper noun

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Ukrainian

  1. TheEast Slaviclanguage ofUkrainians, and theofficial language ofUkraine.
    • 1888, Stepniak [i.e.,Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky], chapter I, inThe Russian Peasantry: Their Agrarian Condition, Social Life, and Religion, 2nd edition, volume II, London:Swan Sonnenschein and Co. [],→OCLC,page573:
      It [Old Slavonic] is the root of both branches of the living Russian language: of Great Russian, which is the literary and official Russian, as well as ofUkrainian, or Southern Russian. There are, moreover, no popular dialects in our country. The fourteen millions of Ukrainians, settled in the plains of south-west Russia, all speak exactly the same language.

Translations

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East Slavic language of Ukrainians, and the official language of Ukraine

See also

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References

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  1. ^Ukrainian,adj. andn.”, inOED OnlinePaid subscription required, Oxford:Oxford University Press,June 2022;Ukrainian,n. andadj.”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.

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