Inherited from Old East Slavic, from Proto-Slavic *xrǫ̃ščь. Cognate with Middle Russian хрущъ (xrušč) (attested since the late 1400s), Old Church Slavonic хрѫщь (xrǫštĭ).
хрущъ • (xrušč) m animal
url=khrushchPlease see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Bulyka, A. M., editor (2016), “хрущъ”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 36 (фолкга – чорно), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 173