kush

• Kush

From Hindu Kush, the place of origin.

• IPA^(key): /kʊʃ/
• Rhymes: -ʊʃ

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.com, 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.”

• Husk, husk, khus, kuhs, sukh

From Proto-Albanian *kusa, compound of Proto-Indo-European *kʷu (“who”) + *so (“that one”) (compare Tocharian B kᵤse (“who”)).

• IPA^(key): [kuʃ]

kush (accusative kë, dative kujt, ablative kujt)

1. who

• askush
• dikush
• gjithkush
• kushdo
• kushdoqoftë
• ndokush
• kushtoj

From Proto-Turkic *Kuĺ.

kush (plural kushlar)

1. bird