куча

• куче́ (kučé), кучя́ (kučjá)
• кутя (kutja) — from Russian

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κουκκιά pl (koukkiá, “broad beans”). Cognate with Old East Slavic кутья (kutĭja, “kutia”).

Attested as кoуциꙗ (koucija) in Church Slavonic texts.

• IPA^(key): [koˈt͡ʃa̟]

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• Rhymes: -t͡ʃa̟
• Hyphenation^(key): ку‧ча

куча́ • (kučá) f

1. (dialectal, Eastern Orthodoxy) kutia (boiled grains given for commemoration of deceased people)

   Synonym: жито за помен (žito za pomen)

• “куча”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “кучя (куч'а)”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 173

• IPA^(key): [ˈkut͡ɕə]

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• Rhymes: -ut͡ɕə
• Hyphenation: ку́‧ча

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kuča.

ку́ча • (kúča) f inan (genitive ку́чи, nominative plural ку́чи, genitive plural куч, relational adjective кучево́й, diminutive ку́чка)

1. heap, pile

   Synonym: гру́да (grúda)

2. a lot (a large amount)

   Synonyms: ма́сса (mássa), (colloquial) у́йма (újma)

3. (computing) heap

   фибона́ччиева ку́ча ― fibonáččijeva kúča ― Fibonacci heap

   выделе́ние па́мяти в ку́че ― vydelénije pámjati v kúče ― allocating memory on the heap

4. (vulgar) pile, steaming pile (of excrement)

• → Yakut: кууча (kuuca)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “куча”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “куча”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.

Inherited from Old East Slavic куча (kuča), from Proto-Slavic *kǫťa. Doublet of ку́ща (kúšča), a borrowing from Old Church Slavonic.

ку́ча • (kúča) f inan (genitive ку́чи, nominative plural ку́чи, genitive plural куч)

1. (dialectal) a hut made of human-height poles covered with dirt

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1985), “*kǫtja”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 12 (*koulъkъ – *kroma/*kromъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 70

From Old East Slavic кѫча (kǫča), from Proto-Slavic *kǫťa.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkut͡ʃɐ]

  (Carpathian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʊt͡ʃa/; [ˈkʊt͡ʃä], [ˈkʊ͡u̯t͡ʃä]

• Rhymes: -ut͡ʃɐ
• Hyphenation: ку́‧ча

ку́ча • (kúča) f inan (genitive ку́чі, nominative plural ку́чі, genitive plural куч)

1. barn, stable, pigsty
2. poultry pen
3. a space beneath the stove

• “куча”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)
• “куча”, in Словник.ua [Slovnyk.ua] (in Ukrainian)