hryvnia

See also: hryvnja

English

Hryvnia currency symbol

Alternative forms

• grivna
• gryvna
• hryvnya
• hrivna

Etymology

From Ukrainian гри́вня (hrývnja). Doublet of grivna and grzywna.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /(hə)ˈrɪvnɪə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /(hə)ˈɹɪvniə/

Noun

hryvnia (plural hryvnias or hryvni or hryven)

1. The currency of Ukraine, symbol ₴, divided into 100 kopiykas.
   • 1920, Scott’s Monthly Journal, volume 1, New York, N.Y.: Scott Publications, →OCLC, page 13, column 2:

     […] Ukrainian postage stamps are to be used in values of 10, 20, 40 hryven of which the total number of 13,005 pieces are prepared for this purpose and surcharged Courier and Field Post, […]

   • 1991 August 16, Mykhaylo Shvayka, quotee, anonymous translator, “Official on Republic Currency”, in Soviet Union: Republic Affairs (FBIS Report; FBIS-USR-91-023), [McLean, Va.?]: Foreign Broadcast Information Service, page 49, column 2:

     The liabilities of the Ukraine stand at 122 billion rubles, nearly 90 billion rubles on the accounts of its populace. If this whole sum were exchanged for national currency, then all the chaos which existed in the ruble would continue with the new hryven.

   • 2011, Leontina M. Hormel, “A Case Study of Gender, Class, and Garment Work Reorganization in Ukraine”, in Heike Kahlert, Sabine Schäfer, editors, Engendering Transformation: Post-Socialist Experiences on Work, Politics, and Culture (GENDER Journal for Gender, Culture and Society; Special Issue 1), Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich Publishers, →ISBN, page 21:

     Poltava GOK supervisors obtained the highest median monthly incomes at 450 hryven (84.43 EUR/USD), which was 85 hryven above Ukraine’s 2002 subsistence minimum.

Usage notes

Sometimes the native Ukrainian plural forms are used: the nominative hryvni for amounts of 2–4, or the genitive hryven or hryven' for 5 or more (from гри́вні (hrývni) and гри́вень (hrývenʹ)).

Translations

Ukrainian currency

• Arabic: هَرِيفْنَا f (harīfnā), هْرِيفْنَا f (hrīfnā)
• Armenian: գրիվնա (grivna), գռիվնա (gṙivna)
• Azerbaijani: qrivna
• Belarusian: гры́ўна f (hrýŭna), гры́ўня f (hrýŭnja)
• Bulgarian: гри́вна (bg) f (grívna)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 格里夫納 (gélǐfūnà), 赫里夫尼亞 (hèlǐfūníyǎ)

• Czech: hřivna (cs) f
• Danish: hryvnia c
• Dutch: grivna, griv­nya, hryv­nja
• Estonian: grivna (et)
• Finnish: grivna (fi)
• French: hryvnia (fr) f
• Georgian: გრივნა (grivna)
• German: Hrywnja (de) f, Griwna (de) f
• Greek: γρίβνα (el) f (grívna), χρίβνια (el) f (chrívnia)
• Hebrew: הְרִיבְנְיָה f (grivnya)
• Hindi: रिव्निया (rivniyā)
• Hungarian: hrivnya (hu)
• Icelandic: hrinja
• Japanese: フリヴニャ (furivunya)
• Kazakh: гривня (grivnä), гривна (grivna)
• Korean: 흐리브냐 (heuribeunya)
• Kyrgyz: гривня (grivnya), гривна (grivna)
• Latvian: grivna f
• Lithuanian: grivina f
• Macedonian: гривна f (grivna)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hryvnja (no) m

• Persian: گریونا (gerivnâ)
• Polish: hrywna (pl) f
• Portuguese: grivna (pt) f, hryvnia f, grívnia f
• Romanian: grivna f, hryvnia f, grivnă f
• Russian: гри́вна (ru) f (grívna)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хри̑вња f, гри̑вња f, гри̑вна f

  Roman: hrȋvnja f, grȋvnja (sh) f, grȋvna (sh) f

• Slovak: hrivna f
• Slovene: hryvnia f, grivna f
• Spanish: grivna f, hryvnia (es) f
• Swedish: hryvnja (sv) c
• Tajik: гривня (grivnya), гривна (grivna)
• Thai: ฮรึวญา
• Turkish: grivna (tr), hrıvnya
• Ukrainian: гри́вня (uk) f (hrývnja)
• Uzbek: grivna (uz)

Portuguese

Noun

hryvnia f (plural hryvnias)

1. hryvnia (Ukrainian currency)

   Synonym: grivna