корем

Bulgarian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Church Slavonic корьмъ (korĭmŭ), viewed by (some) Bulgarian scholars as a Proto-Bulghar archaism of Oghur origin. Cognate with Chuvash хырăм (hyrăm), Turkish karın, Kazakh қарын (qaryn), Uzbek qorin (with rounding of proto-Turkic *a > proto-Oghur *o). According to Miklosich, borrowed or elsewise related to the Turkic words.

According to Berneker, borrowed from a Balkan dialect, probably originally as a plurale tantum корми́ pl (kormí), later back-formed to коре́м sg (korém). The origin of the word is speculated to be Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós, “trunk”). Compare also Albanian kurm (“body”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [koˈrɛm]

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Noun

коре́м • (korém) m (relational adjective коре́мен, diminutive коре́мче)

1. abdomen, midriff, belly, tummy

   Synonyms: търбу́х (tǎrbúh), шкембе́ (škembé), (dialectal) тумба́к (tumbák), пу́здра (púzdra)

2. (informal) stomach

   Synonym: стома́х (stomáh)

Declension

Declension of коре́м

	singular	plural
indefinite	коре́м korém	коре́ми, корми́1 korémi, kormí1
definite (subject form)	коре́мът korémǎt	коре́мите, корми́те1 korémite, kormíte1
definite (object form)	коре́ма koréma
count form	—	коре́ма koréma

¹Dialectal.

Derived terms

• ко́рмя (kórmja, “to gut”)
• коре́мест (korémest, “ventral”)
• корму́шка (kormúška, “belly”) (dialectal)

References

• “корем”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “корем”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Todorov, T. A., Racheva, M., editors (2010), “корем”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 7 (слòво – теря̀свам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 633