кълка

Bulgarian

Alternative forms

• кълк (kǎlk) — dialectal

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kъlka (“bony stump”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kulˀk-. Per Derksen, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- (“to turn”).

Cognates include Macedonian колк (kolk, “hip”), Russian колк (kolk, “bony stump”), Serbo-Croatian kuk (“thigh, hip”) and Lithuanian kulkšnis (“ankle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɤɫkɐ]
• Hyphenation: къл‧ка

Noun

къ́лка • (kǎ́lka) f (diminutive къ́лчица) (colloquial)

1. (of animals, poultry) upper muscular portion of the leg

   Synonym: бут (but)

2. (of people) thigh

   Synonym: бедро́ (bedró)

Declension

Declension of къ́лка

	singular	plural
indefinite	къ́лка kǎ́lka	къ́лки kǎ́lki
definite	къ́лката kǎ́lkata	къ́лките kǎ́lkite

References

• “кълка”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “кълка”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “кълк, кълка”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 190
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*kъlka; *kъlkъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 260: “m. o 'bony stump'”
• Derksen, Rick (2015) “kulkšnis”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 262: “It seems plausible to me that the basic root is kʷelh₁ - 'turn'.”