гъжва

Bulgarian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gǫži (jū-stem), later reanalyzed as an (v)a-stem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɤʒvɐ]

• Audio:

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Noun

гъ́жва • (gǎ́žva) f

1. cloth wound and tangled into a clump
   1. (as a headwear) turban, shemagh
   2. (as a fastener) bundle, wrapping
2. (figurative) jam, congestion

Declension

Declension of гъ́жва

	singular	plural
indefinite	гъ́жва gǎ́žva	гъ́жви gǎ́žvi
definite	гъ́жвата gǎ́žvata	гъ́жвите gǎ́žvite

Alternative forms

• гъ́жова (gǎ́žova) — with alternative decomposition of the v-stem
• гу́жва (gúžva), га́жва (gážva) — with dialectal pronunciation of proto-Slavic *-ǫ-
• гъж m (gǎž) — obsolete

References

• “гъжва”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “гъжва”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Nayden Gerov (1895) “гѫ́жва и гѫ́жёва”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎^[1] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 265