застра

Bulgarian

Etymology

From за- (za-) +‎ Proto-Slavic *ustra (“dawn”) (compare Old Church Slavonic заоустра (zaustra), attested in Ps. sin.). Doublet of у́тро (útro) (the later levelled out from *jutro (“early, soon”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈzastrɐ]

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Noun

за́стра • (zástra) f

1. (dialectal, obsolete) dawn, daybreak

   Synonyms: за́ран (záran), (dialectal) му́гра (múgra)

Declension

Declension of за́стра

	singular	plural
indefinite	за́стра zástra	за́стри zástri
definite	за́страта zástrata	за́стрите zástrite

Alternative forms

• заутра (zautra), завстра (zavstra) — obsolete

Related terms

• су́трин (sútrin, “morning”)

References

• “застра”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• Nayden Gerov (1897) “за́стра”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎^[1] (in Bulgarian), volume 2, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 123
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “застра, ʒастра”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 611
• “заоутра”, in Старобългарски речник [Old Bulgarian Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), https://histdict.uni-sofia.bg, 2011—2024