Rush

• 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 (literally “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 (literally “descendant of Fuada”), compare Foody, from the noun fuad (“haste”).
• As a German surname, Americanized from Rüsch, Ruesch, Rusch.

Rush (countable and uncountable, plural Rushs or Rushes)

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

• Hurs, Suhr, RHUs, HRUs

From Proto-Albanian *rāguša^[1] Compare Sicilian Ragusa. Alternatively from Latin Ragusium.^[2] 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.

Rush m (definite Rushi)

1. (historical) Ragusa (former name of Dubrovnik: a city and port in southern Croatia, on the Adriatic Sea) [before 1918]
2. (historical) The Republic of Ragusa

• rrush