List of English words of Ukrainian origin

List of English words of Ukrainian origin

English words of Ukrainian origin are words in the English language which were borrowed or derived from the Ukrainian language.

Some of them may have entered English via Russian, Polish, Yiddish, or some other language. They may have originated in another languages, but are used to describe notions related to Ukraine. Some are regionalisms, used in English-speaking places with a significant Ukrainian diaspora population, especially Canada, but all of these have entered the general English vocabulary.

* Baba, grandmother or old woman
* Babka, a sweet Easter bread (related to French "baba au rhum")
* Bandura, a stringed instrument
* Borscht (Ukrainian "borshch"), beet soup, also the expression "cheap like borscht"
* Cossack (Ukrainian "Kozak"), a freedom-loving horseman of the steppes
* Gotch, gotchies, or gitch, underwear
* Gley (Ukrainian "hley"), a sticky blue-grey waterlogged soil type, poor in oxygen
* Hetman, a Cossack military leader
* Holubtsi (Western Canadian English), cabbage rolls, variation and Anglicizations include holupcheez, etc., usually treated as a singular and plural in English, only plural in Ukrainian.
* Hopak, a traditional dance
* Kasha, porridge
* Kubasa, kolbassa (Canadian English, from Ukrainian "kovbasa"), garlic sausage
* Paska (Canadian English), a decorated Easter bread, also "paskha" or "pashka", a rich dessert with curd cheese and dried fruit
* Perogy, pl. perogies (North American, Ukrainian "pyrih, pyrohy"), stuffed dumplings or pastry
* Pysanka, Easter egg
* Steppe, an extensive plain, esp. one without trees
* Tachanka, a horse-drawn machine gun platform
* Varenyky, boiled dumplings with potato or meat inside

References

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See also

* Canadian Ukrainian, a diaspora variation or dialect of Ukrainian
* List of words of Russian origin, many of which also appear in Ukrainian, or are closely related
* List of English words of Yiddish origin, some of which originate in Slavic languages, including Ukrainian
* Lists of English words of international origin


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