Etymology

Zakarpatye

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Today it means: Carpathian Ruthenia, a historic region in the Carpathian Mountains in the west of Ukraine, eastern Slovakia, southeastern Poland, and northwestern Romania. Full definition →

Russian Закарпатье
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  1. Russian · borrowed fromЗакарпатье“Transcarpathia”
  2. English todayZakarpatye

From Russian Закарпатье (Zakarpatʹje, “Transcarpathia”), from за- (za-, “beyond”) + Карпа́ты (Karpáty, “Carpathians”) + -ье (-ʹje, “denoting a place”).

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