език
Bulgarian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *(j)ęzykъ, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.
Pronunciation
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Noun
езѝк • (ezìk) m
- (anatomy) tongue, glossa
- tongue (of a shoe, bell, etc.), pawl, catch, clapper
- (system of communication using words or symbols) language, speech, tongue, lingo
- (the particular words used in speech or a passage of text) language, style, idiom, parlance, wording
- jargon, cant
Inflection
Further reading
- “език”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014