Ukrainian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [kʲiʃ]
  • (file)

Etymology 1 edit

From Old East Slavic [Term?], from Proto-Slavic *košь. Cognate to Polish kosz, Serbo-Croatian кош, etc.

Noun edit

кіш (kišm inan (genitive коша́, nominative plural коші́, genitive plural коші́в)

  1. basket
    Synonym: корзина (korzyna)
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Etymology 2 edit

From Turkic. Compare Chagatai قوش (qoş, camp, troop; station, tent).

Noun edit

кіш (kišm inan (genitive коша́, nominative plural коші́, genitive plural коші́в, relational adjective кошови́й)

  1. (historical) a military camp in medieval Ruthenia and early modern Ukraine
  2. (historical) a subdivision of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen
  3. (historical) the largest territorial unit of the Free Cossacks
  4. (dated) a dwelling of nomads
  5. a camp
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Further reading edit

  • Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2010–2023), “кіш2”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1–14 (а – префере́нція), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka; Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
  • Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1985), “кіш”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 2 (Д – Копці), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 452