kush
See also: Kush
English
Alternative forms
- Kush
Etymology
From Hindu Kush, the place of origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʊʃ/
- Rhymes: -ʊʃ
Noun
kush (uncountable)
- (slang) Marijuana, especially Cannabis indica (a variety of marijuana originating in Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, strains of which often have high THC content).
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
- 2011, “Next”, in Echoes of Silence, performed by The Weeknd:
- Baby, who you callin' soft / Don't make me smoke up all your kush / Don't make me pop your cheap ass pills
- 2013, “All Me”, in Nothing Was the Same, performed by Drake:
- Smoking on that kush all in our section / Like it's legalized
- 2013 December 4, Kevin Donovan, “Rob Ford: Gang members targeted mayor in blackmail plot, police documents say”, in The Star:
- Later in the day, Siyad is heard on a wiretap telling another man that he received “1.5 of kush” (slang for marijuana) from “Rob Ford’s driver.” Later Siyad tells another person, a woman, that what he received was actually “Rob Ford’s kush.”
Anagrams
- Huks, Husk, husk, khus, kuhs, sukh
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *kusa, compound of Proto-Indo-European *kʷu (“who”) + *só (“that one”) (compare Tocharian B kᵤse (“who”), Messapic [Term?] (kos, “someone”)).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kuʃ]
Pronoun
kush (accusative kë (kënd), dative kujt (kuj), ablative kujt (kuj))
- who (as an interrogative pronoun)
- Synonyms: cila, cili
- nobody, noone (as an indefinite pronoun; used to distinguish someone from others)
- Synonym: askush
Declension
declension of kush
singular | plural | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | masculine | feminine | ||
nominative | kush | kush | sa | sa | |
accusative | kë (kënd) | kë (kënd) | sa | sa | |
genitive/dative/ablative | (i) kujt (kuj) | (e) kujt (kuj) | save | save |
- Note:
- pronoun “kush” only in singular; pronoun “sa” only in indefinite plural
- dative and ablative forms → without clitic i m, e f:
- (sg.) m.+f.: kujt (or kuj)
- (pl.) m.+f.: save
- genitive forms → with clitic i m, e f:
- (sg.) m.: i kujt (kuj), f.: e kujt (kuj)
- (pl.) m.: i save, f.: e save
Derived terms
- (indefinite pronouns) askush (“nobody, no one, none”), dikush (“somebody, someone”)
- gjithkush (“everybody, everyone”)
- kushdo (“whoever”)
- kushdoqoftë (“whichever”)
- ndokush (“anyone”)
See also
- (possessive pronouns) im m (“my”), ime f (“my”), imi m (“mine”), imja f (“mine”), e f, tu (“your”), i m, saj (“her”), tij (“his”)
- (interrogative) kush (“who”), kënd (alter. accusative), kuj (alter. dat/gen/abl), i kujt (genitive), cili m (“who, which”), cila f (“who, which”)
- (demonstrative) ky m (“it, this, that”), kjo m (“it, this, that”), këtë (“this (one)”), këta m (“these, those”), këto f (“these, those”) (if followed by an noun: ai m, ajo f, atë)
- (subjective) unë (“I”), ti (“you”), ai (“he”), ajo (“she”), ne (“we”), ju (“you”), ata m (“they”), ato m (“they”)
- (relative) që, cili m (“which”), cila f (“which”), cilat f (“which”), cilët m (“which”)
- (indefinite) ndonjë, gjithë m (“all”), gjitha f (“all”) shumë (“many”), pak (“few”), nja (“several”), mbarë (“all together”), mjaft (“enough, many”), disa (“some, several”) (ca), një palë (“a pair, couple”) (një parë)
- (reflexive) veten, vetveten
References
- Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 245
Further reading
- interrogative/indefinite pronoun kush (who) (nominative kush (m.+f.), genitive i kujt (m.), e kujt; dative+ablative kujt; accusative kë) • Fjalori Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)
Uzbek
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *Kuĺ.
Noun
kush (plural kushlar)
- bird