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kapeika

kapeika

9.9
A small Belarusian coin worth one hundredth of a ruble
  • noun
translation icon : kapeika
  • A kapeika is worth one hundredth of a rubel.

Examples

  • The smallest groceries sometimes list prices down to the kapeika.

  • He found a kapeika coin at the bottom of his pocket.

  • Tourists exchanged their rubels for coins and found they had many kapeikas.

  • I found a kapeika on the street yesterday.

  • He discovered a kapeika lying on the pavement while walking through the market.

  • The price of the bread was listed in kapeika, making it easy to pay exactly.

  • After counting his coins, he realized he had several kapeikas to spare.

Synonyms

kopeck
vskapeika
2 8.7

A small coin worth one hundredth of a ruble

is used in Belarus for the country's hundredth money unit
kopek
vskapeika
1 9.3

A small Russian coin worth one hundredth of a ruble

is the Belarus form of the same hundredth monetary unit
kopiyka
vskapeika
9.9

A small coin worth one hundredth of a hryvnia

is the Belarusian equivalent for a different national currency unit
qindarka
vskapeika
9.9

A small Albanian coin worth one hundredth of a lek

is the Belarus version applying to a different country's currency unit
penni
vskapeika
  • Archaic
9.9

A former small Finnish coin worth one hundredth of the old markka

is a current Belarus hundredth unit rather than a historical one

Surface Forms

kapeika singular
kapeikas plural

Etymology

The word kapeika comes from the Russian word kop'yo, which means 'spear', because old coins showed a horseman holding a spear and people named the small coin after that. You may know the coin as kopek, and a kapeika is the small coin worth one hundredth of a rubel.