# Ukraine

Pronunciation: say "yoo-KRAYN" /juːˈkɹeɪn/

## Proper noun

1. A country in Eastern Europe lying along the northern shore of the Black Sea, with Kyiv as its capital and largest city.
   - Simple: A country in eastern Europe, next to the Black Sea. Its capital is Kyiv.
   - _Ukraine is one of the largest countries lying entirely within Europe by land area._
   - _Grain exports from Ukraine supply food markets across Africa and the Middle East._

## Origin

Borrowed from Polish Ukraina or Russian Украи́на (Ukraína), from Old East Slavic оукраина (ukraina). This word is most commonly taken to have meant "borderland, marches," though for about a century Ukrainian scholars have argued it instead meant "region, country, the land around a given center."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/ukraine (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).