chourtka (chortka)

1. A native name of a kind of partridge, Tetraogallus caspius, inhabiting mountainous regions in Ru ia and Siberia. -2. [ cap.] [NL.] A genus of such partridges: synonymous with Tetraogallus. Motschoulsky, 1839. cho us (kös or kous), n. [Gr. χοῦς (> LL. chus ), equivalent to 3.283 liters, or 2.8 quartes, The cho us was the equivalent of the Roman congius. Daremberg et Saglio; Reinach, Manuel de Philologie, 1883.