куча

See also: кӯча

Bulgarian

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

Attested as кoуциꙗ (koucija) in Church Slavonic texts.

куча́ • (kučá) f

(dialectal, Eastern Orthodoxy) kutia (boiled grains given for commemoration of deceased people)
Synonym: жито за помен (žito za pomen)

Declension of куча́

	singular
indefinite	куча́ kučá
definite	куча́та kučáta

куча in Rečnik na bǎlgarskija ezik (Institut za bǎlgarski ezik)
Georgiev V. I., editor (1986), “кучя (куч'а)”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 173

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

heap, pile
a lot (a large amount)
(computing) heap
фибона́ччиева ку́ча ― fibonáččijeva kúča ― Fibonacci heap

выделе́ние па́мяти в ку́че ― vydelénije pámjati v kúče ― allocating memory on the heap
(vulgar) pile, steaming pile (of excrement)

Declension of ку́ча (inan fem-form sibilant-stem accent-a)

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

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)

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

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