Etymology

Belenko

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Today it means: A surname from Russian Full definition →

Russian Беленко ← Ukrainian Бі́ленко
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The story

  1. Ukrainian · derived fromБі́ленко
  2. Russian · borrowed fromБеленко
  3. English todayBelenko

Borrowed from Russian Беленко (Belenko), itself from Ukrainian Бі́ленко (Bílenko). The surname is related to бе́лый (bélyj, “white”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.