Rush

See also: rush and RUSH

English

Etymology

• As an English surname, from the noun rush (“waterside plant, plant in marshes”).
• Also as an English surname, from the archaic noun rush (“beehive”), from French ruche.
• As an Irish surname, from Ó Ruis (“descendant of Ros”), a name from ros (“wood”). Sometimes also translated from Ó Luachra due to confusion with luachair (“rushes”), see Loughrey.
• Also as an Irish surname, translated/Anglicized from Ó Fuada (“descendant of Fuada”), compare Foody, from the noun fuad (“haste”).
• As a German surname, Americanized from Rüsch, Ruesch, Rusch.

Proper noun

Rush (countable and uncountable, plural Rushs or Rushes)

1. An English surname originating as an occupation for someone who made things from rushes.
2. A placename
   1. A coastal town in Fingal, County Dublin, Ireland.
   2. An unincorporated community in El Paso County, Colorado, United States.
   3. An unincorporated community in Boyd County and Carter County, Kentucky, United States.
   4. A town in Monroe County, New York, United States.
   5. A number of townships, in Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio and Pennsylvania, United States, listed under Rush Township.
   6. Ellipsis of Rush County.

Derived terms

• Rush Center
• Rush County

 

Anagrams

• Hurs, RHUs, Suhr

Albanian

Etymology

From Latin Ragusium. Regarded as a quite early loanword as the /ɡ/ is dropped, a pattern in older loanwords such as mjeshtër from magister, Drisht from Drivastum, mjek from medicus, and pyll from palūs, palūdem. Alternatively, inherited from Proto-Albanian *rāguša Compare Sicilian Ragusa.

Noun

Rush m (definite Rushi)

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

See also

• rrush