Cush

See also: cush

English

Alternative forms

• Kush

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew כוש (kûš, “Ethiopia, Ethiopians”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʌʃ/, /kʊʃ/

Proper noun

Cush

2. (biblical) The son of Ham, grandson of Noah, and supposed progenitor of the African peoples.
3. (biblical) A Benjamite mentioned only in the title of Psalm 7.
4. An Iron Age kingdom on the middle Nile, in what is now northern Sudan.

Derived terms

• Cushite
• Cushitic

Translations

son of Ham

• Arabic: كُوش m (kūš), كُوش بْن حَام m (kūš bn ḥām)
• Vietnamese: Cúc, Cút

ancient kingdom

• Arabic: كُوش f (kūš), مَمْلَكَة كُوش f (mamlaka(t) kūš)
• Egyptian: (kꜣš)

See also

• Nubia
• Sudan
• Egypt

Etymology 2

Noun

Cush (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of kush (“marijuana”)
   • 2013, Chauncey "Chino Dolla" Stevens, Antoine "Don Twan" Robinson, A Hustler's Dream I: Grinding in Atlanta's Hip Hop Underworld, MasterMind Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 239:

     He loved smoking joints and couldn't handle blunts. […] I also had him backstage smoking Cush with Jeezy and Will.

   • 2020, Samuel Van Ness IV, A Stranger Within (HC), Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 289:

     I couldn't work with my hands anymore. To make money I started selling Cush, which was considered to be fake weed. It stopped the pain in my hands. I was addicted to the fake crap. I was smoking more ...

   • 2021, Okuon Cham, From Hell to Haven; Darkness to Light; Negativity to Positivity; and from Cradle to Salvation, Life Journey, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

     It was June of 2015; we were just smoking Cush with my friends as usual when suddenly something hit me hard on the right ... I thought it was nothings serious, I got up and tried to smoke a gain, but this time it switches up my chest ...

References

• “Cush”, in Collins English Dictionary.

Anagrams

• CHUs, Such, hucs, such