kutya

kutya (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of kutia.
   • 1954 December, Olive Knox, “The Evening Star”, in H[arold] S[tanley] Fry, editor, The Country Guide, Winnipeg, Man.: The Public Press Limited, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 33, column 1:

     Lesia put a bowl of kutya, its boiled wheat grains mixed with honey and ground poppy seed, in the center of the table. Papa dipped a wooden spoon into the kutya and tossed it into the air.

   • 1989 October, Linda Madl, “Your Army and Mine”, in Sweet Ransom, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 232:

     The next day, Christmas Day, Elise tried to have as little to do with Nikholai as possible. The day was celebrated with the traditional feast that ended with a pot of kutya, rice boiled with raisins and nuts.

   • 2009, Alisa White Karwowski, “The ‘Holy Supper’”, in A Guide to Russian Adoption: Professional Counseling and Personal Insights, Westport, Conn.: Praeger, →ISBN, chapter 8 (Personal Challenges and Joys: John Sergei and Charlie Vitalij), page 150:

     The kutya is eaten from a common dish to symbolize unity. Some families used to throw a spoonful of kutya up to the ceiling. According to tradition, if the kutya stuck, there would be a plentiful honey harvest.

From an onomatopoeia; possibly related to Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian куче, ultimately from an Oghur source. ^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈkucɒ]

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• Hyphenation: ku‧tya
• Rhymes: -cɒ

kutya (plural kutyák)

1. dog

   Synonym: eb

• (dog): kutya in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• ([mining] car, truck; synonym of csille): kutya in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (part of the phrase futó kutya (“running dog”), a decorative motif in Greek architecture, imitating breaking waves): kutya in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

• cotya — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kutˈjaʔ/ [kʊtˈt͡ʃaʔ]
  • IPA^(key): (no palatal assimilation) /kutˈjaʔ/ [kʊt̪ˈjaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: kut‧ya

kutyâ (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜆ᜔ᜌ)

1. mockery; scorn; ridicule; scoff

   Synonyms: atsoy, tuya, uroy, pagtuya, panunuya, paghamak, panghahamak, libak, paglibak, panlilibak, uyam, pag-uyam, pang-uuyam, aglahi, pag-aglahi, pang-aaglahi

• “kutya”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018