Where the Romanian word “pușcă” comes from
From Hungarian.
- DEX ’98 says
Din magh. puska, pol. puszka, rus. pușka.
→ Hungarian · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Hungarian (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Hungarian puska ← Polish puszka ← cs puška ← goh būhse ← Latin pyxis
- In film dialogue
- 32 times per million words · number 1,863 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 7.8 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 41 86 58 87 44 - Swap in a synonym
- imediat (French), arc (Inherited Latin), repede (Inherited Latin), tun (Inherited Latin), dezbrăcat (Made in Romanian), praștie (Old Slavic)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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