Bulgarian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قوشاق (whence modern Turkish kuşak).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [koˈʃa̟k]
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Noun edit

куша́к (kušákm (dialectal, obsolete)

  1. belt, strip, waist-band
    Synonyms: по́яс (pójas), кола́н (kolán)

Declension edit

References edit

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

Russian edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old East Slavic кушакъ (kušakŭ), from Kipchak or Old Anatolian Turkish; equivalent to Crimean Tatar кушак or Turkish kuşak.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

куша́к (kušákm inan (genitive кушака́, nominative plural кушаки́, genitive plural кушако́в)

  1. belt, girdle, sash

Declension edit