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Cush en · PROPN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /kʊʃ/
• /kʌʃ/

Etymology

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew כוש (kûš, “Ethiopia, Ethiopians”).

Meanings

1. The son of Ham, grandson of Noah, and supposed progenitor of the African peoples.
2. A Benjamite mentioned only in the title of Psalm 7.
3. An Iron Age kingdom on the middle Nile, in what is now northern Sudan.

Forms

Deriveds

Cushitic · Cushite

Relateds

Nubia · Sudan · Egypt

Translations (9)

ar مَمْلَكَة كُوش (ancient kingdom) · vi Cúc (son of Ham) · ar كُوش (son of Ham) · vi Cút (son of Ham) · egy k-A-S:N25 (ancient kingdom) · ar كُوش بْن حَام (son of Ham) · hi कूश (ancient kingdom) · ar كُوش (ancient kingdom) · hi कूश (son of Ham)

wikidata: Q1138595

Cush en · NOUN · etymology 2

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of kush (“marijuana”).
   alt of kush
   • He loved smoking joints and couldn't handle blunts. […] I also had him backstage smoking Cush with Jeezy and Will. 2013, Chauncey "Chino Dolla" Stevens, Antoine "Don Twan" Robinson, A Hustler's Dream I: Grinding in Atlanta's Hip Hop Underworld, MasterMind Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 239:
   • It was June of 2015; we were just smoking Cush with my friends as usual when suddenly something hit me hard on the right ... I thought it was nothings serious, I got up and tried to smoke a gain, but this time it switches up my chest ... 2021, Okuon Cham, From Hell to Haven; Darkness to Light; Negativity to Positivity; and from Cradle to Salvation, Life Journey, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
   • I couldn't work with my hands anymore. To make money I started selling Cush, which was considered to be fake weed. It stopped the pain in my hands. I was addicted to the fake crap. I was smoking more ... 2020, Samuel Van Ness IV, A Stranger Within (HC), Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 289:

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