Rus

See also: rus, RUS, rus', rus., Rus., Rus', R Us, and Ruś

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Earlier form Russ from German Russe etc., from Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ). More recent use influenced by Russian Русь (Rusʹ), from Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ). Use with macron was probably influenced by the transliteration of Arabic رُوس‎ (rūs).

Compare Russ, Russian, Russie, Russniak, Rusyn, Ruthenian.

Also compare Swedish Ryss, Dutch Rus, German Russe, French Russe, Byzantine Greek οί Ῥῶς (oí Rhôs), Russian Русь (Rusʹ), Belarusian Русь (Rus’), Ukrainian Русь (Rus’). Also compare Russian ру́сский (rússkij, “Ethnic Russian, of Rus”), россия́нин (rossijánin, “Russian national”), Росси́я (Rossíja, “Russia”).

See further Etymology of Rus and derivatives.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹuːs/, /ɹʌs/

Proper noun

Rus (countable and uncountable, plural Rus)

  1. A people made up of Scandinavian warrior merchants who travelled Eastern European river-roads from the eighth century, and whose settlements around Kiev and the Dnieper gave rise to the Russian principalities. [from 19th c.]
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, page 504:
      In 860 the Rus’ streamed southwards and laid siege to Constantinople itself.
  2. The medieval East Slavic state established by these same warrior merchants in the 9th century, whose capital was first in Novgorod and then in Kiev; Kievan Rus.
  3. Any of the medieval East Slavic principalities ruled by this class, especially Kievan Rus.
  4. (poetic) The nation of Russia, especially in a transcendent or romantic sense referring to the history and culture of the country.

Usage notes

This neutral term is used more often instead of Russia or medieval Russia, acknowledging that the Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian people share the heritage of Rus.

With this innovation, it is sometimes unclear how to replace the adjective Russian in the same context. Alternatives include using the attributive noun, as in “the Rus princes”, or rewriting to use “of Rus”. The nonstandard adjective Rusian is seen very rarely.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

Rus (plural Rus)

  1. A person from Rus.
    • 1959, Boris Dmitrievich Grekov, Kiev Rus, Foreign Languages Pub. House, p 244:
      And if a Rus hits a Greek, or a Greek a Rus with a sword, a spear or any other weapon, he shall pay five litres of silver for his offence, in accordance with Rus law; and if he be unable (insolvent—Author) his property shall be sold for the best price it fetches, including the very clothes . . .
    • 1959, Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Solov’ev, History of Russia from the Earliest Times [2000], v 3 (The Shift Northward: Kievan Rus, 1154–1228), p 223:
      If a Varangian claimed money from a Rus, or a Rus from a Varangian, and the debtor refused to pay, the plaintiff, accompanied by twelve witnesses, . . .
    • 1973, Donald W. Treadgold, The West in Russia and China: Religious and Secular Thought in Modern Times, v 1 (Russia, 1472–1917), →ISBN, p xxxv:
      The Church of Kievan Rus knew men well-versed in Scripture and apparently other learning of the time, such as the Metropolitans Ioann II (d. 1089) and Klimetn Smoliatich (twelfth century). The former was Greek, and the latter a Rus.

References

Anagrams

Central Franconian

Etymology

From Old High German rōsa, from Latin rosa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʀuːs/

Noun

Rus f (plural Ruse, diminutive Rüsje or Riesche)

  1. (most dialects) rose

Usage notes

  • The diminutive Rüsje is Ripuarian; the form Riesche is Moselle Franconian.

Czech

Noun

Rus m

  1. Russian (person)

Synonyms

Further reading

  • Rus in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • Rus in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʏs
  • IPA(key): /rʏs/

Noun

Rus m (plural Russen, diminutive Rusje n, feminine Russin)

  1. Russian
  2. (Bargoens) detective
  • Rusland n
  • russificeren
  • Russisch n and adjective
  • russofiel m
  • russofoob m
  • Witrus m

Polish

Etymology

From rusy or Rus ("Ruthenian" or "Russian").

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rus/

Proper noun

Rus m pers, f

  1. A masculine surname​.
  2. A feminine surname​.

Declension

Masculine surname:

The feminine surname is indeclinable.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rûs/

Proper noun

Rȕs m (Cyrillic spelling Ру̏с)

  1. Russian (male person)

Declension

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrus/

Noun

Rus m (genitive singular Rusa, nominative plural Rusi, genitive plural Rusov, declension pattern of chlap)

  1. Russian (person)

Declension

References

  • Rus in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrúːs/
  • Tonal orthography: rȗs

Noun

Rús m anim (genitive Rúsa, nominative plural Rúsi, feminine Rúsinja)

  1. Russian (male person)

Declension

Turkish

Noun

Rus

  1. A Russian person (nationality)
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