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ruchnik

ruchnik is the alternative form of rushnyk.

Meaning of rushnyk

Noun

rushnyk (plural rushnyks or rushnyky)

  1. (Ukraine) A cloth/towel embroidered with symbols and cryptograms of the ancient world, used in Eastern Slavic ceremonies.

Forms of ruchnik

pluralruchniks
pluralruchniki

Origin of ruchnik

From Russian ручни́к (ručník) or Belarusian ручні́к (ručník).

Questions about ruchnik

What is ruchnik the alternative form of?
Ruchnik is the alternative form of rushnyk.

Words near ruchnik in the dictionary

  1. ruches
  2. Ruchi
  3. Ruchill
  4. ruching
  5. ruchings
  6. ruchnik
  7. ruchniki
  8. ruchniks
  9. rucinol
  10. Rucinski
  11. Rucinskis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ruchnik (page history and authors); rushnyk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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