kopiika
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kopiikas
form: kopiiky
form: kopiiok
Senses: examples: text: Here, an auction began. Everything was sold at comically low prices: kopiiky. The bedding, clothing, dishes, and all other household wares were actually in fairly sad shape.
ref: 1983 November 14, Volodymyr Bazylevs’kyi, “Memoir of an Eyewitness of the Great Famine in Ukraine, 1932-33”, in The Great Famine in Ukraine, 1932-33: A Collection of Memoirs, Speeches and Essays Prepared in 1983 in Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Famine in Ukraine During 1932-33, Toronto, Ont.: Ukrainian Orthodox Brotherhood of St. Volodymyr, published 1988, →OCLC, page 25:
text: UKRAINE […] 10 Kopiiok 1994
ref: 1996 November, COINage, volume 32, number 11, Ventura, Calif.: Miller Magazines, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: “De-ear woman, give me something for a ro-oll, at least,” lilted an elderly beggarwoman, holding out an empty tin can. The grey-haired woman had a few hryvnias in her wallet. Shouldn’t there be some kopiikas, too? Yes, here’s twenty-five. She wouldn’t give fifty, though. Both of the old women’s hands shook. The small coin fell to the ground.
ref: 1998, Yevhenia Kononenko, translated by Marco Carynnyk and Marta Horban, “An Elegy about Old Age”, in Janice Kulyk Keefer, Solomea Pavlychko, editors, Two Lands, New Visions: Stories from Canada and Ukraine, 1st U.S. edition, Regina, Sask.: Coteau Books, published 1999, →ISBN, “Ukraine” section, page 22:
text: Other Ukrainian newspapers, he noted, are subsidized by companies close to the presidential administration and the current government, and sell for only 5 or 6 kopiiky (less than 2 cents U.S.) per issue.
ref: 1999 March 21, Lily Hyde, “Ukraine’s independent media suffer more woes”, in The Ukrainian Weekly, Jersey City, N.Y.: Ukrainian National Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 May 2025, page 2, column 1:
text: The first Ukrainian stamps, issued 1 March 1992, had a face value of 15 kopiiky.
ref: 2002, John-Paul Himka, “Handbook Marks Coming of Age”, in George D. Fedyk, editor, Ukrainian Philatelist, volume 50, number 2 (88 overall), Southfields, N.Y.: Ukrainian Philatelic and Numismatic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2022, page 71:
text: The local goldsmiths also often expressed their creativity in coin-made earrings. The collection holds two pairs of earrings made of «10 kopiiok» coin dated 1910 and the coin «25 pennia» dated 1917. The last one had pendants with wings. In the left-land Cherkasy region such earrings could be hung over with «butterflies», «wings», and «balls».
ref: 2019 September 27, Iryna Dunaina, “Women’s Earring Collection in National Historical-Ethnographic Reserve «Pereiaslav»”, in Relevant Issues of the Development of Science in Central and Eastern European Countries, Riga: Baltija Publishing, →DOI, archived from the original on 21 Jan 2022, page 78:
text: In Ukraine, the hryvnia, which is officially known as UAH, is divided into 100 kopiiok.
ref: 2021 March 24, Міністерство освіти і науки України [Ministerstvo osvity i nauky Ukrajiny, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine], Методичні рекомендації та навчальні завдання для практичних занять і самостійної роботи з вибіркової дисципліни «Розмовний курс сучасної англійської мови А2/В1» [Metodyčni rekomendaciji ta navčalʹni zavdannja dlja praktyčnyx zanjatʹ i samostijnoji roboty z vybirkovoji dyscypliny “Rozmovnyj kurs sučasnoji anhlijsʹkoji movy A2/V1”], Rivne, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2024, page 26:
english: Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
roman: Ministerstvo osvity i nauky Ukrajiny
translation: Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
glosses: Alternative spelling of kopiyka.