пушка

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Bulgarian

Etymology

Common Slavic, from Old High German buhsa (box), from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā (box), from Late Latin buxis (box), from Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís, boxwood box). The "firearm" sense dates back to the 14th c.

There are numerous cognates in Slavic and Balkan languages, including Hungarian puska, Romanian pușcă, Albanian pushkë, Czech puška and Russian пу́шка (púška).

Pronunciation

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  • Syllabification(key): пу‧шка
  • Hyphenation(key): пуш‧ка

Noun

пу́шка (púškaf

  1. rifle

Declension

References

  • пушка”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • пушка”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
  • Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (2002), “пушка¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 6 (пỳскам – словàр²), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, pages 20-21

Macedonian

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Pronunciation

Noun

пу́шка (púškaf (plural пу́шки, diminutive пу́вче or пу́шкиче)

  1. rifle, gun

Declension

References

  • пушка” in Дигитален речник на македонскиот јазик (Digitalen rečnik na makedonskiot jazik) − drmj.eu

Russian

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Etymology 1

Common Slavic. Inherited from Old East Slavic пушка (puška) / пушька (pušĭka). Further etymology is disputed:

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Noun

пу́шка (púškaf inan (genitive пу́шки, nominative plural пу́шки, genitive plural пу́шек, relational adjective пу́шечный, diminutive пу́шечка)

  1. (military) gun, cannon
    90-мм зени́тная пу́шка90-mm zenítnaja púška90-mm anti-aircraft gun
    автомати́ческая пу́шкаavtomatíčeskaja púškaautocannon
  2. (colloquial) gun, handgun
  3. (colloquial) hoax
  4. (slang) something evoking strong emotions
Usage notes

In modern military usage, пу́шка (púška) refers to an artillery piece with a relatively long barrel, operating with a relatively low angle of fire or as a direct fire weapon, e.g. a field gun, an anti-aircraft gun, or an autocannon.

Historically, the word пу́шка (púška) had been used to refer to any large artillery piece, similarly to the historical usage of the English word cannon.

Declension

References

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пушка”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “пу́шка”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 86

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

пушка́ (puškám inan

  1. genitive singular of пушо́к (pušók)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Common Slavic, from Old High German būhse, from Latin pyxis, from Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pûʃka/
  • Hyphenation: пуш‧ка

Noun

пу̏шка f (Latin spelling pȕška, diminutive пу̏шкица)

  1. rifle
  2. gun

Declension

Descendants

  • Albanian: pushkë

Further reading

  • пушка”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024