чума

Borrowed from Romanian ciumă, probably from Latin cȳma, from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “swell, wave, billow”).

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чу́ма • (čúma) f

1. plague, pestilence; especially the Black Death

• “чума”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “чума”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

• муча (muča)

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Borrowed from Romanian ciumă, probably from Latin cȳma, from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “swell, wave, billow”).

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чума • (čuma) f

1. plague (disease)

Borrowed from Romanian ciumă, probably from Latin cȳma, from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “swell, wave, billow”).

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чума́ • (čumá) f inan (genitive чумы́, uncountable)

1. plague, pestilence
2. (specifically) the plague, the Black Death

• чу́мка (čúmka)
• чумно́й (čumnój), чумово́й (čumovój)

• → Ingrian: cuma

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “чума”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

Doublet of джу́ма (džúma).

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чума́ • (čumá) f inan (genitive чуми́, uncountable)

1. plague