юс

Inherited from Old Church Slavonic ѫсъ (ǫsŭ, “big yus”).

• IPA^(key): [ju̟s]

юс • (jus) m (relational adjective ю́сов)

1. (literally) Alternative form of въс (vǎs, “moustache, flagellum”)
2. (linguistics) yus, either of two letters, little yus (Ѧ) and big yus (Ѫ), representing nasal vowel sounds in the old Cyrillic alphabet.

   малък юс ― malǎk jus ― little yus

   голям юс ― goljam jus ― big yus

• “юс”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “юс”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• “юс”, in Български тълковен речник [Bulgarian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), fourth edition, Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 2005, page 1089

• юсъ (jus) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic ѫсъ (ǫsŭ, “big yus”).

• IPA^(key): [jus]
• Homophone: юз (juz)

юс • (jus) m inan (genitive ю́са, nominative plural ю́сы, genitive plural ю́сов)

1. yus, either of two letters, little yus (Ѧ) and big yus (Ѫ), representing nasal vowel sounds in the old Cyrillic alphabet.

   юс ма́лый ― jus mályj ― little yus

   юс большо́й ― jus bolʹšój ― big yus