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English
Noun
kopejka (plural kopejkas)
- Alternative spelling of kopeika (“kopek”).
1905 June, Edith Sellers, “Official Poor Relief in Russia: A ‘Topsyturvy’ System”, in James [Thomas] Knowles, editor, The Nineteenth Century and After, volume LVII, number CCCXL, New York, N.Y.: Leonard Scott Publication Co.; London: Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd., Printers, page 1030:And this is in a great measure because of the taxes they are forced to pay, taxes for which they obtain in return nothing, not even the certainty of a few kopejki as pauper relief when too old and feeble to work.
1951, V. L. Borin, Civilization at Bay, London: The Forty-Five Press, page 118:From The Progressive History of Russia we learn that in 1912 the average wage of an industrial proletarian in Russia was fifty-five kopejkas per day.
1952 February 29, Enfant Terrible , “Should fines be graduated?”, in The Kingston Whig-Standard, year 26, number 76, Kingston, Ont., page four:Tolstoy gave one ruble and the laborer only a few kopejkas.
Czech
Noun
kopejka f
- kopek (one-hundredth of a ruble)
Declension
Declension of kopejka (hard feminine reducible)
Further reading
- “kopejka”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “kopejka”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989