Katyusha

Etymology
Borrowed from diminutive of, in turn diminutive of , named after.

Noun

 * 1) A type of artillery rocket launcher consisting of an array of rockets mounted on a truck, originated in the Soviet Union.
 * 2) A type of rocket which can be launched from a Katyusha.
 * 3) * 1970, Muʼassasat al-Dirāsāt al-Filasṭīnīyah, The Arabs under Israeli occupation, Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, p 24:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1970, Muʼassasat al-Dirāsāt al-Filasṭīnīyah, The Arabs under Israeli occupation, Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, p 24:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1970, Muʼassasat al-Dirāsāt al-Filasṭīnīyah, The Arabs under Israeli occupation, Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, p 24:
 * 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.

Translations

 * Arabic: كَاتْيُوشَا
 * Armenian: կատյուշա
 * Belarusian: кацю́ша
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: Katjoesja
 * French: ,
 * German: Katjuscha,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: katiuscia, organo di Stalin
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 카추샤, 카튜샤
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: katyusha, Katyusha
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian: катю́ша


 * Dutch: Katjoesja
 * Hebrew:, טיל קטיושה
 * Hungarian:
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian: катю́ша