паяк

Bulgarian

Домашен паяк

Etymology

Inherited from Old Church Slavonic паѭкъ (pajǫkŭ), going back to Proto-Slavic *paǫkъ + epenthetic *-j-. Morphologically formed as па- (pa-) +‎ *ѫк (*ǫk, “angler, hooker”). Compare Church Slavonic ѫкоть (ǫkotĭ, “hook”) (Serbian recension).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpajɐk]
• (nonstandard) IPA^(key): [ˈpaek]

Noun

па́як • (pájak) m (relational adjective па́ячен, diminutive па́яче)

1. spider, arachnid
2. spider crawl (a muscular exercise)

Declension

Declension of па́як

	singular	plural
indefinite	па́як pájak	па́яци pájaci
definite (subject form)	па́якът pájakǎt	па́яците pájacite
definite (object form)	па́яка pájaka
count form	—	па́яка pájaka

Derived terms

• паякообра́зен (pajakoobrázen, “arachnomorphous”)

Related terms

• па́яжина (pájažina, “spider's web”)

Descendants

• → Turkish: payak

References

• “паяк”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “паяк”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “паяк¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 121

Anagrams

• капя (kapja)