куча

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See also: кӯча

Bulgarian

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Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κουκκιά pl (koukkiá, “beans”). Cognate with Old East Slavic кутья (kutĭja, “kutia”).

Attested as кoуциꙗ (koucija) in Church Slavonic texts.

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Noun

куча́ • (kučá) f

  1. (dialectal, Eastern Orthodoxy) kutia (boiled grains given for commemoration of deceased people)
    Synonym: жито за помен (žito za pomen)

Declension

Declension of куча́
singular
indefinite куча́
kučá
definite куча́та
kučáta

References

  • “куча”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “кучя (куч'а)”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 173

Russian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kuča.

Noun

ку́ча • (kúča) f inan (genitive ку́чи, nominative plural ку́чи, genitive plural куч, relational adjective кучево́й, diminutive ку́чка)

  1. heap, pile
    Synonym: гру́да (grúda)
  2. a lot (a large amount)
    Synonyms: ма́сса (mássa), (colloquial) у́йма (újma)
  3. (computing) heap
    фибона́ччиева ку́ча ― fibonáččijeva kúča ― Fibonacci heap
    выделе́ние па́мяти в ку́че ― vydelénije pámjati v kúče ― allocating memory on the heap
  4. (vulgar) pile, steaming pile (of excrement)
Declension
Declension of ку́ча (inan fem-form sibilant-stem accent-a) 
singular plural
nominative ку́ча
kúča 		ку́чи
kúči
genitive ку́чи
kúči 		ку́ч
kúč
dative ку́че
kúče 		ку́чам
kúčam
accusative ку́чу
kúču 		ку́чи
kúči
instrumental ку́чей, ку́чею
kúčej, kúčeju 		ку́чами
kúčami
prepositional ку́че
kúče 		ку́чах
kúčax
Descendants
  • → Yakut: кууча (kuuca)

References

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

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old East Slavic куча (kuča), from Proto-Slavic *kǫťa. Doublet of ку́ща (kúšča), a borrowing from Old Church Slavonic.

Noun

ку́ча • (kúča) f inan (genitive ку́чи, nominative plural ку́чи, genitive plural куч)

  1. (dialectal) a hut made of human-height poles covered with dirt

References

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1985), “*kǫtja”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 12 (*koulъkъ – *kroma/*kromъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 70
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