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suržyk

suržyk is the alternative form of Surzhyk.

Meaning of Surzhyk

Proper noun

Surzhyk

  1. A pidgin language or interlanguage combining elements of Russian and Ukrainian, spoken mainly in Ukraine but also some neighbouring regions in Russia (Kursk, Voronezh and Belgorod) or Ukrainians living in Russia.
    • “I was waiting for them with so much happiness,” Larisa, 74, said in surzhik, a dialect that is a mixture of Ukrainian and Russian.2022 September 14, Valerie Hopkins, “War May Be Distant in Moscow, but in One Russian Border City, It’s Real”, in The New York Times

Questions about suržyk

What is suržyk the alternative form of?
Suržyk is the alternative form of Surzhyk.

Words near suržyk in the dictionary

  1. Suryanarayana
  2. Suryapet
  3. Suryapur
  4. Suryoyo
  5. surzhyk
  6. suržyk
  7. sus
  8. sus chord
  9. sus chords
  10. sus law
  11. sus laws

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Adapted from Wiktionary: suržyk (page history and authors); Surzhyk (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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