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Inherited from Sanskrit उच्च (ucca). Cognate to Sinhalese උස් (us)
އުސް • (us)
- high, elevated, tall
- Hassan Ahmed Maniku (2000) “އުސް”, in A Concise Etymological Vocabulary of Dhivehi Language, Colombo: The Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, page 244