different between ush vs kush

English

Etymology 1

Back formation from usher.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

ush (third-person singular simple present ushes, present participle ushing, simple past and past participle ushed)

1. (colloquial, rare, transitive and intransitive) To usher: to perform the action of an usher: to escort.
   • 2000, Jonathan Pearce, John-Browne's Body and Sole: A Semester of Life, BalonaBooks (2006), ?ISBN, page 142:

     And she is Mrs. Freundlich’s dear friend, so old Mark, who was acting as usher, ushed her and Mrs. Preene to seats right up in front next to Claire so Mrs. Shaw could scope out everything I did.

Etymology 2

Clipping of usual.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ju??/
• Rhymes: -u??

Adjective

ush (comparative more ush, superlative most ush)

1. Alternative form of uzhe; Clipping of usual.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:uzhe.

Noun

ush (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of uzhe; Clipping of usual.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:uzhe.

Anagrams

• HUS, Hsu, Hus, SHU, Shu, Suh, shu', suh, uhs

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