pușcă

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See also: pusca, puscã, Pušća, and pușca

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian puska or Polish puszka, both being derived from Czech puška, inevitably from Old High German būhse, from Latin pyxis, from Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís).

Compare Serbo-Croatian puška, Czech and Slovak puška, Russian пушка (puška), Albanian pushkë

Pronunciation

Noun

pușcă f (plural puști)

  1. rifle, gun

Declension

singular plural
+ indefinite article + definite article + indefinite article + definite article
nominative/accusative (o) pușcă pușca (niște) puști puștile
genitive/dative (unei) puști puștii (unor) puști puștilor
vocative pușcă, pușco puștilor