kopek

kopek

See also: kópék, köpek, and köpək

English

Alternative forms

• copeck, kopeck, 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).

Noun

kopek (plural kopeks)

1. A Russian monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a ruble.
2. A kopiyka: a Ukrainian monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a hryvnia.

Usage notes

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

Translations

one-hundredth of a ruble

Adyghe: чапыч (čaapəč) Albanian: kopek (sq) m 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) Catalan: copec (ca) m Chechen: кепек (kepek) Chinese: Mandarin: 戈比 (zh) (gēbǐ) Crimean Tatar: kapik Czech: kopejka f, kopějka (cs) f Danish: kopek c Dargwa: кепек (kepek) Dutch: kopeke (nl) f Esperanto: kopeko (eo) Estonian: kopikas 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) Italian: copeco (it) m Japanese: コペイカ (kopeika) Kabardian: кӏэпейкӏэ (kʼepeejkʼe) Kalmyk: деншг (denshg) Kazakh: тиын (kk) (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 Roman: 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 Yiddish: קאָפּעקע‎ f (kopeke)

See also

• kopiyka

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Spanish

Noun

kopek m (plural kopeks)

1. kopek

Further reading

• “kopek”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014