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See also: Kush

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Hindu Kush, the place of origin.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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kush (uncountable)

  1. (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[2]:
      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.”

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Albanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Albanian *kusa, compound of Proto-Indo-European *kʷu (who) + *só (that one) (compare Tocharian B kᵤse (who), Messapic [script needed] (kos, someone)).[1]

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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kush (accusative kë (kënd), dative kujt (kuj), ablative kujt (kuj))

  1. who (as an interrogative pronoun)
    Synonyms: cila, cili
  2. nobody, noone (as an indefinite pronoun; used to distinguish someone from others)
    Synonym: askush

Declension

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  • Note:
    • pronoun “kushonly in singular; pronoun “saonly in indefinite plural
    • dative and ablative forms → without clitic i m, e f:
    • genitive forms → with clitic i m, e f:

Derived terms

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  • (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 f (it, this, that), këtë (this (one)), këta m (these, those), këto f (these, those) (if followed by a 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) , 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

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  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian[1], Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 245

Further reading

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  • [3] interrogative/indefinite pronoun kush (who) (nominative kush (m.+f.), genitive i kujt (m.), e kujt; dative+ablative kujt; accusative ) • Fjalori Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)

Uzbek

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *Kuĺ.

Noun

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kush (plural kushlar)

  1. bird