куча
See also: кӯча
Bulgarian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κουκκιά pl (koukkiá, “beans”). Cognate with Old East Slavic кутья (kutĭja, “kutia”).
Attested as кoуциꙗ (koucija) in Church Slavonic texts.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
куча́ • (kučá) f
- (dialectal, Eastern Orthodoxy) kutia (boiled grains given for commemoration of deceased people)
- Synonym: жито за помен (žito za pomen)
Declension edit
Declension of куча́
singular | |
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indefinite | куча́ kučá |
definite | куча́та kučáta |
References edit
- “куча”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “кучя (куч'а)”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 173
Russian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kuča.
Noun edit
ку́ча • (kúča) f inan (genitive ку́чи, nominative plural ку́чи, genitive plural куч, relational adjective кучево́й, diminutive ку́чка)
- heap, pile
- Synonym: гру́да (grúda)
- a lot (a large amount)
- (computing) heap
- фибона́ччиева ку́ча ― fibonáččijeva kúča ― Fibonacci heap
- выделе́ние па́мяти в ку́че ― vydelénije pámjati v kúče ― allocating memory on the heap
- (vulgar) pile, steaming pile (of excrement)
Declension edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Yakut: кууча (kuuca)
References edit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “куча”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Old East Slavic куча (kuča), from Proto-Slavic *kǫťa. Doublet of ку́ща (kúšča), a borrowing from Old Church Slavonic.
Noun edit
ку́ча • (kúča) f inan (genitive ку́чи, nominative plural ку́чи, genitive plural куч)
References edit
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1985), “*kǫtja”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 12 (*koulъkъ – *kroma/*kromъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 70
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