куча
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See also: кӯча
Bulgarian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κουκκιά pl (koukkiá, “beans”). Cognate with Old East Slavic кутья (kutĭja, “kutia”).
Attested as кoуциꙗ (koucija) in Church Slavonic texts.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]куча́ • (kučá) f
- (dialectal, Eastern Orthodoxy) kutia (boiled grains given for commemoration of deceased people)
- Synonym: жито за помен (žito za pomen)
Declension
[edit]Declension of куча́
singular | |
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indefinite | куча́ kučá |
definite | куча́та kučáta |
References
[edit]- “куча”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “кучя (куч'а)”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 173
Russian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kuča.
Noun
[edit]ку́ча • (kúča) f inan (genitive ку́чи, nominative plural ку́чи, genitive plural куч, relational adjective кучево́й, diminutive ку́чка)
- heap, pile
- Synonym: гру́да (grúda)
- a lot (a large amount)
- (computing) heap
- фибона́ччиева ку́ча ― fibonáččijeva kúča ― Fibonacci heap
- выделе́ние па́мяти в ку́че ― vydelénije pámjati v kúče ― allocating memory on the heap
- (vulgar) pile, steaming pile (of excrement)
Declension
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Yakut: кууча (kuuca)
References
[edit]- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “куча”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Etymology 2
[edit]Inherited from Old East Slavic куча (kuča), from Proto-Slavic *kǫťa. Doublet of ку́ща (kúšča), a borrowing from Old Church Slavonic.
Noun
[edit]ку́ча • (kúča) f inan (genitive ку́чи, nominative plural ку́чи, genitive plural куч)
References
[edit]- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1985), “*kǫtja”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 12 (*koulъkъ – *kroma/*kromъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 70
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