different between hush vs kush

English

Etymology

From Middle English huschen (“to hush”) (as past participle husht (“silent; hushed”) and interjection husht (“quiet!”)). Cognate with Low German huschen, hüssen (“to hush; lull”), German huschen (“to shoo; scurry”), Danish hysse (“to hush”), and maybe Albanian hesht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??/, /h??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

hush (third-person singular simple present hushes, present participle hushing, simple past and past participle hushed)

1. (intransitive) To become quiet.
2. (transitive) To make quiet.
3. (transitive) To appease; to allay; to soothe.
   • 1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv'd

     Wilt thou, then, Hush my cares?

   • And hush'd my deepest grief of all.

4. (transitive) To clear off soil and other materials overlying the bedrock.

Translations

Noun

hush (uncountable)

1. A silence, especially after some noise
2. A mining method using water

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Huhs

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

From English hush.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??/
• Hyphenation: hush

Interjection

hush

1. there, there (calm somebody)

Verb

hush

1. be quiet

English

Alternative forms

• Kush

Etymology

From Hindu Kush, the place of origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

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).
   • 2013, Kevin Donovan, “Rob Ford: Gang members targeted mayor in blackmail plot, police documents say”, in The Star (Toronto), Dec. 4:

     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

• Husk, husk, khus, kuhs, sukh

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *kusa, compound of Proto-Indo-European *k?u (“who”) + *so (“that one”) (compare Tocharian B k?se (“who”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ku?]

Pronoun

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

• 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

Further reading

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

References

Uzbek

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *Ku?.

Noun

kush (plural kushlar)

1. bird