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pușcă

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pușcă¹

  • /ˈpuʃkə/

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Hungarian puska or Polish puszka, both being derived from Czech puška, inevitably from Old High German būhse, from Latin pyxis, from Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís).

Compare Serbo-Croatian puška, Czech and Slovak puška, Russian пушка (puška), Albanian pushkë

noun puști · pușcă · pușca · puștile

  1. feminine rifle, gun

Pușcă²

Where it comes from

From pușcă.

proper noun lui Pușcă

  1. masculine a surname

In English

  • gun less portable, long weapon

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MLA

"pușcă." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ro/pu%C8%99c%C4%83. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

pușcă. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/ro/pu%C8%99c%C4%83

Chicago

"pușcă." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/ro/pu%C8%99c%C4%83.

BibTeX
@misc{pus_ca_2026,
  title = {pușcă},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ro/pu%C8%99c%C4%83},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}