азиатец

Bulgarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɐziˈatɛt͡s]

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Noun

азиа́тец • (aziátec) m (feminine азиа́тка)

1. male person from Asia, Asian man or boy
2. (obsolete) savage, barbarian, Philistine

Usage notes

• The obsolete sense of “savage”, etc., was derived from enmity towards Ottoman Turks during the Ottoman occupation of Bulgaria.

Declension

Declension of азиа́тец

	singular	plural
indefinite	азиа́тец aziátec	азиа́тци aziátci
definite (subject form)	азиа́тецът aziátecǎt	азиа́тците aziátcite
definite (object form)	азиа́теца aziáteca
vocative form	азиа́тецо aziáteco	азиа́тци aziátci

Related terms

• азиа́тски (aziátski)

References

• “азиатец”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “азиатец”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• “азиатец”, in Български тълковен речник [Bulgarian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), fourth edition, Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 2005, page 20