Rush

See also: rush and RUSH

English

Proper noun

Rush

  1. An English surname originating as an occupation for someone who made things from rushes.
  2. A coastal town in Fingal, County Dublin, Ireland.
  3. An unincorporated community in El Paso County, Colorado, United States.
  4. An unincorporated community in Boyd County and Carter County, Kentucky, United States.
  5. A town in Monroe County, New York, United States.

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Albanian

Etymology

From Latin Ragusium[1]. Reguarded as an quite early loanword as the "G" is dropped, a pattern in older loanwords such as mjeshtër from magister, Drisht from Drivastum, mjek, from medicus, and pyll from palūs, palūdem. Alternativly, inherited from Proto-Albanian *rāguša[2] Compare Sicilian Ragusa.

Noun

Rush m (definite singular Rushi)

  1. Former name of Dubrovnik (city in Croatia). [before 1918]
  2. (historical) The Republic of Ragusa,
  3. (historical) Ragusa

See also

References
  1. Mansaku. S. (1982). Studime Filologjike. Qendra e Studimeve Albanologjike. P. 110.
  2. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998). Albanian etymological dictionary. Leiden: Brill.
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