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Rusyn

Rusyn

English

Noun

Rusyn ‎(plural Rusyns)

Member of a people living in the eastern Carpathian Mountains, in part of western Ukraine, south-eastern Poland and north-eastern Slovakia.
(archaic) ethnonym for East Slavic people - any of Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, an inhabitant of Kievan Rus, Muscovy, etc., an Orthodox, East Slavic inhabitant of Rzeczpospolita.

Translations

member of a people

Finnish: ruteeni (fi)
Kazakh: русын ‎(rwsın)
Russian: руси́н (ru) m ‎(rusín), руси́нка (ru) f ‎(rusínka)

Serbo-Croatian: rusini
Ukrainian: ру́си́н m ‎(rúsýn), ру́си́нка f ‎(rúsýnka)

an inhabitant of the ancient Rus

Belarusian: русі́н m ‎(rusín), русі́нка f ‎(rusínka), ру́скі m ‎(rúski), ру́ская f ‎(rúskaja), ру́січ m ‎(rúsič), ру́січка f ‎(rúsička)
Russian: руси́н (ru) m ‎(rusín), руси́нка (ru) f ‎(rusínka), ру́сич (ru) m ‎(rúsič), ру́сичка (ru) f ‎(rúsička), ру́сский (ru) m ‎(rússkij), ру́сская (ru) f ‎(rússkaja)

Ukrainian: ру́си́н m ‎(rúsýn), ру́си́нка f ‎(rúsýnka), ру́ський (uk) m ‎(rúsʹkyj), ру́ська f ‎(rúsʹka), ру́сич m ‎(rúsyč), ру́сичка f ‎(rúsyčka)

Proper noun

Rusyn

East Slavic language (Ukrainian dialect) spoken by Rusyns.

Translations

East Slavic language

Finnish: ruteeni (fi)
Kazakh: русын тіл ‎(rwsın til)
Russian: руси́нский (ru) m ‎(rusínskij), руси́нский язы́к (ru) m ‎(rusínskij jazýk)
Rusyn: русинська бесіда f ‎(rusýns'ka besída), русиньскый язик m ‎(rusýns'kyj jazýk), руски язик m ‎(rúsky jazýk)

Serbo-Croatian: rusinski (sh)
Ukrainian: руси́нська f ‎(rusýnsʹka), руси́нська мо́ва f ‎(rusýnsʹka móva)

Adjective

Rusyn ‎(comparative more Rusyn, superlative most Rusyn)

Of or pertaining to the Rusyn people, culture, or language.

Related terms

Ruthenian
Carpathian Ruthenia
Carpatho-Rusyn
Rus
Russian