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Kuban

/kuːˈbɑːn/

Kuban proper noun: a river in Russia in the North Caucasus. It flows through the Karachay-Cherkessia, Stavropol Krai Krasnodar Krai, and Adygea.

kuban: a river in Russia in the North Caucasus. It flows through the Karachay-Cherkessia, Stavropol Krai...
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Proper noun (1)

Kuban

  1. A river in Russia in the North Caucasus. It flows through the Karachay-Cherkessia, Stavropol Krai Krasnodar Krai, and Adygea.
    • ...ex-Imperial officers who came to the Don and the Kuban to take arms against Lenins regime...1971, Peter Kenez, Civil War in South Russia, 1918: The First Year of the Volunteer Army, University of California Press
    • "In the 1860s, the lands beyond the Kuban were settled by Black Sea and Line Cossacks from areas populated earlier..."1984, Tamara Dragadze, Social Science
  2. (broadly) a geographic region of Southern Russia surrounding the Kuban River, on the Black Sea between the Don Steppe, Volga delta and the Caucasus.
    • "In the south, the Red Army abandoned Krasnodar and all of the Kuban. Nazi forces plunged south into the Caucasian highlands and east to Stalingrad."1954, United American Ukrainian Organizations Committee of New York
  3. Krasnodar Krai
    • "In 1995, the administration of the Krasnodar Territory, again popularly called the Kuban, adopted the flag of the Kuban Cossacks, with the addition of the territorial coat of arms."2002, James Minahan, Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations

Proper noun (2)

Kuban (plural Kubans)

  1. A surname.

Kuban meaning in Arabic and Persian

Kuban in Arabic

the Kuban river
اَلْكُوبَان al-kubān

Kuban in Persian

the Kuban river
قوبان qubân

Forms of Kuban

pluralKubans

Origin of Kuban

Borrowed from Russian Куба́нь (Kubánʹ).

Borrowed from Czech and Slovak Kubáň or Polish Kuban.

Questions about Kuban

What does Kuban mean?
Kuban means a river in Russia in the North Caucasus. It flows through the Karachay-Cherkessia, Stavropol Krai Krasnodar Krai, and Adygea.
What is Kuban in Arabic?
Kuban in Arabic is اَلْكُوبَان (al-kubān). See Kuban meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is Kuban?
Kuban is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Kuban?
Kuban is pronounced /kuːˈbɑːn/.

Words near Kuban in the dictionary

  1. Kubachi wares
  2. Kubacki
  3. Kubackis
  4. Kubala
  5. Kubalas
  6. Kuban
  7. Kuban'
  8. kubaneh
  9. Kubang Pasu
  10. Kubango
  11. kubanka

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