-ушка

Extracted from nouns with the suffix -уха (-uxa) +‎ -ка (-ka) by rebracketing: стару́ха (starúxa) +‎ ка (ka) → стару́шка (starúška) → стар (star) +‎ -ушка (-uška).

• -ушка: IPA^(key): [ʊʂkə]
• -у́шка: IPA^(key): [ˈuʂkə]

-ушка or -у́шка • (-uška or -úška)

1. (added to (normally feminine) nouns, forms diminutives, sometimes with a further change in meaning)

   ‎коро́ва (koróva, “cow”) + ‎-ушка (-uška) → ‎коро́вушка (koróvuška, “small cow”)

   ‎река́ (reká, “river”) + ‎-у́шка (-úška) → ‎речу́шка (rečúška, “small river, rivulet”)

   ‎го́лубь (gólubʹ, “dove”) + ‎-ушка (-uška) → ‎голу́бушка (golúbuška, “my dear, darling (to a woman, colloquial)”)

2. (added to verbs, forms instruments or tools)

   ‎ката́ть (katátʹ, “to roll”) + ‎-у́шка (-úška) → ‎кату́шка (katúška, “spool, bobbin, coil”)

   ‎верте́ть (vertétʹ, “to turn”) + ‎-у́шка (-úška) → ‎верту́шка (vertúška, “revolving door, turnstile; (engineering) rotator”)

   ‎лови́ть (lovítʹ, “to catch”) + ‎-у́шка (-úška) → ‎лову́шка (lovúška, “trap, snare”)

3. (added to adjectives or numerals, forms colloquial nouns with the meaning of a carrier of the adjective's or numeral's properties)

   ‎губно́й (gubnój, “lip (relational)”) + ‎-у́шка (-úška) → ‎губну́шка (gubnúška, “lipstick (colloquial)”)

   ‎два (dva, “two”) + ‎-у́шка (-úška) → ‎дву́шка (dvúška, “two-kopeck coin; two-bedroom apartment; bus, tram, etc. number two (colloquial)”)

• -ишка (-iška)
• -шка (-ška)

• → Armenian: -ուշկա (-uška)