құс

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Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic قۇس
Cyrillic құс
Latin qūs

Etymology

From earlier *quš, from Proto-Turkic *kuĺ (bird). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰆𐰽 (qus¹ /⁠quš⁠/, bird), Khakas хус (xus), Tuvan, Southern Altai, Kyrgyz куш (kuş), Karakalpak қуш (quş), Bashkir ҡош (qoş), Tatar кош (qoş), Kumyk, Karachay-Balkar къуш (quş), Uzbek qush, Azerbaijani quş, Crimean Tatar, Turkish kuş, Turkmen guş, etc.

Pronunciation

Noun

құс (qūs) (nominative plural құстар)

  1. bird

Declension