vyshyvanka

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noun

Traditional Ukrainian and Belarusian clothing, featuring elements of Ukrainian and Belarusian ethnic embroidery.

OriginUkrainian вишива́нка →
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Meanings

nounvyshyvanka (plural vyshyvankas or vyshyvanky)

plural vyshyvankas · plural vyshyvanky

  1. Traditional Ukrainian and Belarusian clothing, featuring elements of Ukrainian and Belarusian ethnic embroidery.
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    Another explicitly 'joyful' item in my collection is the 1963 Services and Fares brochure, featuring train and ferry timetables to London (and back) from Czechoslovakia, Poland and the USSR, with a happy hopak-dancing Ukrainian cossack in a traditional Ukrainian vishivanka shirt and wide sharovari pants on the cover.

    2026 May 27, Vitali Vitaliev, “Times of hope and joy”, in RAIL, number 1062, page 68

Origin

  1. Ukrainianвишива́нка
  2. Englishvyshyvanka

From Ukrainian вишива́нка (vyšyvánka). Compare Belarusian вышыва́нка (vyšyvánka).

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Translations

German Wyschywanka
  • Wyschywankatraditional Ukrainian and Belarusian clothing
Polish wyszywanka
  • wyszywankatraditional Ukrainian and Belarusian clothing
Russian вышива́нка
  • вышива́нка (vyšivánka)traditional Ukrainian and Belarusian clothing
Ukrainian вишива́нка
  • вишива́нка (vyšyvánka)traditional Ukrainian and Belarusian clothing
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APA

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Chicago

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