пус

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Chuvash[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Persian پوست(skin, hide, pelt). Compare Turkish post.

Noun[edit]

пус (pus)

  1. kopek

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

пус (pus)

  1. to slaughter

Etymology 3[edit]

From Proto-Turkic *bas-. Cognate with Turkish bas-, Kazakh басу (basu), Yakut баттаа (battaa), etc.

Verb[edit]

пус (pus)

  1. to push, to press
  2. to tread on, step on
  3. to suppress, to stifle, to smother
  4. to oppress
  5. to cover
  6. to incubate, to hatch (an egg) (of birds)
  7. (impersonal, figurative) to overcome, to overpower
    мана ыйхă пусатьmana yjhă pus̬atʹI was overpowered by sleep
  8. to enter into a certain age
  9. to dig, to dig up, to loosen up (the soil)

Further reading[edit]

  • “пус”, in Электронлă сăмахсар[1] (in Russian-Chuvash, Chuvash-Russian), 1996.

Khakas[edit]

Noun[edit]

пус (pus)

  1. ice

Declension[edit]