Cush

Pronunciation: /kʌʃ/

The English word “Cush” has 3 meanings listed here.

proper noun

The son of Ham, grandson of Noah, and supposed progenitor of the African peoples.
A Benjamite mentioned only in the title of Psalm 7.
An Iron Age kingdom on the middle Nile, in what is now northern Sudan.

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew כוש (kûš, “Ethiopia, Ethiopians”).

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