пушка

пушка • (puška) f

1. rifle, gun

Common Slavic. From Old East Slavic пушка (puška) / пушька (pušĭka), further etymology is disputed:

• Vasmer: borrowed from Old High German buhsa via Czech puška, Polish puszka, from Vulgar Latin buxis, from Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís). Initial п- is of Bavarian origin.
• Černyh: possibly from *пущька (*puščĭka), from пущати (puščati, “to throw projectiles; to fire”). On the basis of West Slavic (and partly South Slavic) this word hybridized with Old High German buhsa. Compare Lower Sorbian buška.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpuʂkə]

пу́шка • (púška) f inan (genitive пу́шки, nominative plural пу́шки, genitive plural пу́шек)

1. (military) gun, cannon

   90-мм зени́тная пу́шка ― 90-mm zenítnaja púška ― 90-mm anti-aircraft gun

   автомати́ческая пу́шка ― avtomatíčeskaja púška ― autocannon

2. (colloquial) gun, handgun
3. hoax (informal)

In modern military usage, пушка refers to an artillery piece with a relatively long barrel, operating with a relatively low angle of fire or as a direct fire weapon, e.g. a field gun, an anti-aircraft gun, or an autocannon.

Historically, the word пушка had been used to refer to any large artillery piece, similarly to the historical usage of the English word cannon.

• пу́шечный (púšečnyj)
• пушка́рь m (puškárʹ)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “пушка”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv O. N., Moscow: Progress
• Černyx, P. Ja. (1999), “пу́шка”, in Istoriko-etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2, 3rd reprint edition, Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 86

• IPA^(key): [pʊʂˈka]

пушка́ • (pušká) m inan

1. genitive singular of пушо́к (pušók)

Common Slavic, from Old High German būhse, from Latin pyxis, from Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís).

• IPA^(key): /pûʃka/
• Hyphenation: пуш‧ка

пу̏шка f (Latin spelling pȕška)

1. rifle
2. gun

• → Albanian: pushkë