чоловік

From Old East Slavic человѣкъ (čelověkŭ), from Proto-Slavic *čьlověkъ, *čelověkъ.

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʃɔlɔˈvik]
• Rhymes: -ik
• Syllabification: чо‧ло‧вік

чоловік • (čolovik)

1. human, man, one, person^[1]

• (human, person): особа (osoba)
• цибатый (cybatŷj)

From Old East Slavic человѣкъ (čelověkŭ), from Proto-Slavic *čьlověkъ, *čelověkъ.

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʃɔɫɔˈʋʲik]

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чолові́к • (čolovík) m pers (genitive чолові́ка, nominative plural чоловіки́, genitive plural чоловікі́в, relational adjective чолові́чий, diminutive чолові́чок)

1. man (male human)
2. husband
3. man, human

The term is a false friend to many Slavic cognates, including Russian: челове́к (čelovék) and Belarusian: чалаве́к (čalavjék), and its plural is regular. The senses "male human" and "husband" are specific to Ukrainian. The word люди́на (ljudýna) is a more common term for singular "human", "human being".

• люди́на (ljudýna, “human”), plural: лю́ди (ljúdy, “people”)
• муж (muž, “husband”), супру́г (suprúh, “husband, spouse”)

• жі́нка (žínka, “woman, wife”)
• дружи́на (družýna, “wife”)
• супру́га (suprúha, “wife, spouse”)

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “чоловік”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund (2001–2025) “Словники України” online [Dictionaries of Ukraine online]‎^[2] (in Ukrainian)