zhuk

An old Marathi song started to play in my head, "zhuk zhuk zhuk zhuk agin gadi, dhuranchya rekha havet kadhi, palti zade pahu ya, mamachaya gawala jau ya."

news.newamericamedia.org 2009

Making my way through Пятая годовщина ("The Fifth Anniversary"), I ran into the usual slew of difficult Russian vocabulary (и к звездам до сих пор там запускают жучек 'and to this day they're still flinging zhuchkas to the stars'—zhuchka looks like a diminutive of zhuk 'beetle,' but it turns out it's an affectionate name for a pet dog) and learned that лишая, the genitive of the word for 'lichen,' is accented lisháya these days instead of lishayá as my dictionaries have it, but the worst trouble I ran into was with the line я чувствую нутром, как парка нитку треплет 'I feel in my gut the Fate something-ing the thread.'

languagehat.com: SCUTCH. 2005