Rush

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.

• Hurs, RHUs, Suhr

From Latin Ragusium.[1] 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[2] Compare Sicilian Ragusa.

Rush m (definite Rushi)

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

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