Jastrow: כּוּשִׁי

כּוּשִׁי, כּוּשִׁית f. (b. h.; כּוּשׁ II) Cushite, negro; Aethiopian. Gen. R. s. 60, beg.; Cant. R. to II, 8 (not כותי), v. בַּרְבָּרִי. Gen. R. s. 73, end; a. fr. [B. Kam. 113ᵇ, a. e. in later ed. כושי for גּוֹי or נָכְרִי.]—Succ. III, 6 אתרוג הכ׳, expl. ib. 36ᵃ דומה לכ׳ a Palestinean Ethrog resembling an Aethiopian one; (oth. opin.) a real importation from Aethiopia. Y. ib. 53ᵈ אתרוג הכ׳ פסול the Aeth. Ethrog is ritually unfit; הבא מן הכ׳ כשר one of Palestinean growth descended from an Aethiopian Ethrog is available for ritualistic use.—Trnsf. abnormally dark-complexioned. Bekh. VII, 6. Ber. 58ᵇ; Tosef. ib. VII (VI), 3; a. e.—עֵין כּוּשִׁי pr. n. pl. En Kushi. Ab. Zar. 31ᵃ; Y. ib. V, 44ᵈ ע׳ כושי׳; Y. Shebi. V, 36ᵃ top ע׳ כּוּשִׁין.