пус

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pus"

Chuvash

Etymology 1

From Persian پوست (“skin, hide, pelt”). Compare Turkish post.

Noun

пус • (pus)

1. kopek

Etymology 2

Verb

пус • (pus)

1. to slaughter

Etymology 3

From Proto-Turkic *bas-. Cognate with Turkish bas-, Kazakh басу (basu), Yakut баттаа (battaa), etc.

Verb

пус • (pus)

1. to push, to press
2. to tread on, step on
3. to suppress, to stifle, to smother
4. to oppress
5. to cover
6. to incubate, to hatch (an egg) (of birds)
7. (impersonal, figurative) to overcome, to overpower

   мана ыйхă пусать ― mana yjhă pus̬atʹ ― I was overpowered by sleep

8. to enter into a certain age
9. to dig, to dig up, to loosen up (the soil)

Further reading

• “пус”, in Электронлă сăмахсар‎^[1] (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.

Khakas

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *būŕ.

Noun

пус • (pus)

1. ice

Declension

Inflection of пус (pus)

	singular	plural
nominative	пус (pus)	пустар (pustar)
genitive	пустың (pustıñ)	пустарның (pustarnıñ)
dative	пусха (pusxa)	пустарға (pustarğa)
accusative	пусты (pustı)	пустарны (pustarnı)
locative	пуста (pusta)	пустарда (pustarda)
ablative	пустаң (pustañ)	пустардаң (pustardañ)
lative	пуссар (pussar)	пустарзар (pustarzar)
instrumental	пуснаң (pusnañ)	пустарнаң (pustarnañ)

Northern Altai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *būŕ. Cognate to Khakas пус (pus), Shor мус (mus), Chulym пус (pus), Western Yugur pïz, Yakut муус (muus), Dolgan буус (buus), etc.

Noun

пус • (pus)

1. ice

References

• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “пус”, in Severnyje dialekty Altajskovo (Ojrotskovo Jazyka- Dialekt kumandincev(Kumandin Kiži) [Northern Dialect of Altai -Kumandin Dialect(Kumandin kiži)], Moskva: glavnaja redakcija vostočnoja literatury, →ISBN
• N. A. Baskakov, editor (1985), “пус”, in Severnyje Dialekty Altajskovo( Ojrotskovo) Jazyka- Dialekt Lebedinskix Tatar-čalkancev(kuu-kiži) [Northern Altai language-Dialect of Chelkan], Moskva: glavnaja redakcija vostočnoj literatury, →ISBN