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say it: ruhs
rus is a noun meaning "the medieval Russian state established by Scandinavian traders in the 9th century; the capital was first in Novgorod and then in Kiev". It is pronounced /ˈɹʌs/ — ruhs. It carries one recorded sense.
the medieval Russian state established by Scandinavian traders in the 9th century; the capital was first in Novgorod and then in Kiev
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rus come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.