See also: тѫча

Bulgarian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Slavic *tǫča, probably originally meaning precipitation, downpour (compare Old Church Slavonic тѫча (tǫča, downpour)). Cognate with Serbo-Croatian туча (hail), Slovene tọ́ča (blizzard) (dialectal), Russian ту́ча (túča, rainy cloud), Polish tęcza (rainbow).

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ту́ча (túčaf

  1. (obsolescent, dialectal) heavy rainfall, inundation, flood
    Synonyms: поро́й (porój), наводне́ние (navodnénie)

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  • туч (tuč, casted iron) (dialectal, unrelated)

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Old East Slavic

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Etymology

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From Proto-Slavic *tǫ̀ča.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtut͡ɕɑ//ˈtut͡ɕa//ˈtut͡ɕa/
  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ˈtut͡ɕɑ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ˈtut͡ɕa/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈtut͡ɕa/
  • Hyphenation: ту‧ча

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туча (tučaf

  1. rainy cloud

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  • Ukrainian: ту́ча (túča)
  • Russian: ту́ча (túča)

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  • Nikolaev, Sergei L. (2020) «Слово о полку Игореве»: реконструкция стихотворного текста [“The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”: reconstruction of a poetic text]‎[2] (in Russian), Moscow, Saint-Petersburg: Nestor-History, →ISBN, page 307

Russian

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Etymology

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From Old East Slavic туча (tuča), from Proto-Slavic *tǫča, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tenk- (to contract). Compare the Slavic Old Church Slavonic тѫча (tǫča), Ukrainian ту́ча (túča), Polish tęcza and the Non-Slavic Gothic 𐌸𐌴𐌹𐍈𐍉𐌽 (þeiƕōn) and Old Norse þéttr.

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  • IPA(key): [ˈtut͡ɕə]
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ту́ча (túčaf inan (genitive ту́чи, nominative plural ту́чи, genitive plural туч, relational adjective тучево́й, diminutive ту́чка)

  1. (meteorology) rain cloud; dark, heavy cloud
    Не́бо затянуто ту́чами.Nébo zatjanuto túčami.The sky is overcast.
    На не́бе собира́ются ту́чи.Na nébe sobirájutsja túči.Rain clouds are gathering in the sky.
    грозова́я ту́чаgrozovája túčastorm cloud
    ту́чи сгуща́ются (над ке́м-либо)
    túči sguščájutsja (nad kém-libo)
    storm clouds are gathering (over someone)
    как ту́чаkak túčagloomy, morose (about a person)
  2. (figuratively) moving multitude; cloud, host
    ту́чи враго́вtúči vragóvswarms of enemies

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Serbo-Croatian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /tût͡ʃa/
  • Hyphenation: ту‧ча

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ту̏ча f (Latin spelling tȕča)

  1. fight, melee
  2. hail

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Ukrainian

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Etymology

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From Old East Slavic туча (tuča), from Proto-Slavic *tǫča, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tenk- (to contract). Compare the Slavic Old Church Slavonic тѫча (tǫča), Russian ту́ча (túča), Polish tęcza and the Non-Slavic Gothic 𐌸𐌴𐌹𐍈𐍉𐌽 (þeiƕōn) and Old Norse þéttr.

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ту́ча (túčaf inan (genitive ту́чі, nominative plural ту́чі, genitive plural туч)

  1. (meteorology) dark cloud, heavy cloud, rain cloud
  2. (figuratively, rare) cloud, mass (group or swarm)

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