репам

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Bulgarian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Probably cognate with dial. Slovene repáti (to pluck) (e.g. repati ščir (to pluck weed)) and, according to BER, further with Lithuanian rė̃pti (to reach, to grab, j-present). May stem back from Proto-Slavic *rěpati (in view of the Lithuanian cognate).

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ре́пам (répam) first-singular present indicativeimpf (dialectal)

  1. (transitive) to pluck, to pick carefully hair (as cosmetic procedure)
    Hypernym: (in general sense) ску́бя (skúbja)
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Etymology 2[edit]

Of onomatopoeic origin, probably inherited from Proto-Slavic *repati (cf. dial. Serbo-Croatian рѐпати (to strike), Russian ре́пнуть (répnutʹ, to crack)).

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ре́пам (répam) first-singular present indicativeimpf (perfective ре́пна) (dialectal)

  1. (transitive) to thwack, to smack, to hack
  2. (reflexive with се, figurative) to swank
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  • Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (2002), “репам²”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 6 (пỳскам – словàр²), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 224

Russian[edit]

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ре́пам (répamf inan pl

  1. dative plural of ре́па (répa)