куща

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Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic куща (kušta), from Proto-Slavic *kǫťa. Doublet of ку́ча (kúča), the inherited East Slavic form still found in dialects.

Pronunciation

Noun

ку́ща (kúščaf inan (genitive ку́щи, nominative plural ку́щи, genitive plural кущ or ку́щей)

  1. foliage, thicket
  2. (dated) tent, hut
    пра́здник ку́щейprázdnik kúščejFeast of Tabernacles

Declension

References

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “куща”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress