пушка
BulgarianEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
пу́шка • (púška) f
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MacedonianEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
пушка • (puška) f (diminutive пувче or пушкиче)
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RussianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Common Slavic. Inherited from Old East Slavic пушка (puška) / пушька (pušĭka). Further etymology is disputed:
- Vasmer: borrowed from Old High German buhsa via Czech puška, Polish puszka, from Vulgar Latin buxis, from Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís). Initial п- is of Bavarian origin.
- Černyh: possibly from *пущька (*puščĭka), from пущати (puščati, “to throw projectiles; to fire”). On the basis of West Slavic (and partly South Slavic) this word hybridized with Old High German buhsa. Compare Lower Sorbian buška.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
пу́шка • (púška) f inan (genitive пу́шки, nominative plural пу́шки, genitive plural пу́шек, related adjective пу́шечный)
- (military) gun, cannon
- автомати́ческая пу́шка ― avtomatíčeskaja púška ― autocannon
- (colloquial) gun, handgun
- hoax (informal)
Usage notesEdit
In modern military usage, пушка 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 пушка had been used to refer to any large artillery piece, similarly to the historical usage of the English word cannon.
DeclensionEdit
Related termsEdit
- пушка́рь m (puškárʹ)
ReferencesEdit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “пушка”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, Pavel (1999), “пу́шка”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2, 3rd reprint edition, Moscow: Russian Language, page 86
Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
пушка́ • (pušká) m inan
Serbo-CroatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Common Slavic, from Old High German būhse, from Latin pyxis, from Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
пу̏шка f (Latin spelling pȕška)
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DescendantsEdit
- → Albanian: pushkë