агония

Bulgarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian аго́ния (agónija) and Polish agonia, in turn from Ancient Greek ἀγωνία (agōnía, “emulation, competition, struggle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɐˈɡɔnijɐ]

• Audio (Standard Bulgarian):

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• Rhymes: -ɔnijɐ
• Syllabification^(key): а‧го‧ни‧я
• Hyphenation^(key): аго‧ния

Noun

аго́ния • (agónija) f

1. agony, death pangs

Declension

Declension of аго́ния

	singular
indefinite	аго́ния agónija
definite	аго́нията agónijata

References

• “агония”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “агония”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “аго̀ния”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 4
• “агония”, in Български тълковен речник [Bulgarian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), fourth edition, Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 2005, →ISBN, page 18

Russian

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀγωνία (agōnía, “emulation, competition, struggle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɐˈɡonʲɪjə]

• Audio:

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• Audio (Saint Petersburg):

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Noun

аго́ния • (agónija) f inan (genitive аго́нии, nominative plural аго́нии, genitive plural аго́ний)

1. agony, death pangs
   • 1880, Михаил Салтыков-Щедрин [Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin], “Выморочный”, in Господа Головлёвы, Санкт-Петербург: Отечественные записки; English translation from I. P. Foote, transl., The Golovlevs, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986:

     Аго́ния Иу́душки начала́сь с того́, что ресу́рс праздносло́вия, кото́рым он до сих по́р так охо́тно злоупотребля́л, стал ви́димо сокраща́ться.

     Agónija Iúduški načalásʹ s tovó, što resúrs prazdnoslóvija, kotórym on do six pór tak oxótno zloupotrebljál, stal vídimo sokraščátʹsja.

     The final agony of Judas began when the opportunities to engage in prattle, which till now he had so happily exploited, began noticeably to contract.

Declension

Declension of аго́ния (inan fem-form i-stem accent-a) 

	singular	plural
nominative	аго́ния agónija	аго́нии agónii
genitive	аго́нии agónii	аго́ний agónij
dative	аго́нии agónii	аго́ниям agónijam
accusative	аго́нию agóniju	аго́нии agónii
instrumental	аго́нией, аго́ниею agónijej, agónijeju	аго́ниями agónijami
prepositional	аго́нии agónii	аго́ниях agónijax

Related terms

Close related:

• агонизи́ровать impf (agonizírovatʹ)

Related via Ancient Greek ἀγών (agṓn):

• антагони́ст m anim (antagoníst)
• протагони́ст m anim (protagoníst)

Descendants

• → Georgian: აგონია (agonia)

Further reading

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “агония”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.