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katyusha

/kəˈt(j)uːʃə/noun

katyusha is a noun meaning “Alternative letter-case form of Katyusha” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-A-T-Y-U-S-H-A and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of katyusha is katyushas.

What does katyusha mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of Katyusha.

noun

as Katyusha
  1. 1

    A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian female given name Катюша (Katjuša)

  2. 2

    A type of artillery rocket launcher consisting of an array of rockets mounted on a truck, originated in the Soviet Union.

  3. 3

    A type of rocket which can be launched from a Katyusha.

    A curfew was clamped down on December 21 upon the Arab village of Battir, south of Jerusalem, near where security forces on December 20 found the rocket launchers from which two Katyushas were earlier fired into a Jerusalem residential area

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce katyusha?

  • US /kəˈt(j)uːʃə/

Katyusha has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Katyusha.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of katyusha

  • katyushas plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is katyusha?

Katyusha appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Katyusha in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense rocket launcher:

LanguageWords
FrenchKatioucha, orgue de Staline
GermanKatjuscha, Stalinorgel
Portuguesekatyusha, Katyusha

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does katyusha come from?

Borrowed from Russian and Ukrainian Катю́ша (Katjúša) diminutive of Ка́тя (Kátja, “Katya”), in turn diminutive of Екатери́на (Jekaterína, “Katherine”), named after a popular wartime song.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).