See also: pusca, puscã, Pušća, and pușca

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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

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pușcă f (plural puști)

  1. rifle, gun

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