ruska

From a Sami language, compare Northern Sami ruškat.

• IPA^(key): /ˈruskɑ/, [ˈrus̠kɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -uskɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): rus‧ka

ruska

1. autumn foliage; fall foliage (US); autumn colours (UK) (brightly colored leaves of deciduous trees and other plants that appear in the autumn)

• “ruska”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• kuras, raksu

• IPA^(key): /ˈrus.ka/

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• Rhymes: -uska
• Syllabification: rus‧ka
• Homophone: Ruska

ruska

1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of ruski

ruska c

1. a severed branch or bundle of twigs with leaves or needles; a green bough, a green branch

   Doppa en ruska i vatten och slå på elden för att släcka den

   Dip a bough in water and strike the fire to extinguish it

• lövruska
• pissruska

• bastukvast
• björkris

ruska (present ruskar, preterite ruskade, supine ruskat, imperative ruska)

1. (often with om) to shake, to jolt (shake (someone/something) violently)
2. (impersonal) to be rainy (or snowy) and bad (of weather – compare rusk)

   Det ruskar

   The weather is bad

3. to mark (a path or the like) with ruskor

• ruska in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• ruska in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• ruska in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• ruska in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• Svensk-engelsk ordbok - Albert Montgomery, 1914

• rauks

From Proto-Finnic *ruskëda.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈruskɑː/, [ˈruskɑ]
• Rhymes: -uskɑː
• Hyphenation: rus‧ka

ruska

1. red-brown, reddish or grayish brown, dark red-brown, sorrel

Declension of ruska (type VI/valka, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	ruska	ruskad
genitive	ruska	ruskajõ, ruskai
partitive	ruskatõ	ruskaitõ, ruskai
illative	ruskasõ, ruska	ruskaisõ
inessive	ruskaz	ruskaiz
elative	ruskassõ	ruskaissõ
allative	ruskalõ	ruskailõ
adessive	ruskallõ	ruskaillõ
ablative	ruskaltõ	ruskailtõ
translative	ruskassi	ruskaissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn