пирг

Bulgarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πῠ́ργος (pŭ́rgos, “watchtower”), probably of Ancient Macedonian (or alternatively Pelasgian) origin, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ- (“to tower”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pirk]

• Audio (Standard Bulgarian):

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• Rhymes: -irk

Noun

пирг • (pirg) m

1. (dialectal) tower, pillar

   Synonyms: ку́ла (kúla), стълп (stǎlp)

2. (dialectal) small fortress

   Synonyms: (dated) ка́ле (kále), за́мък (zámǎk), укрепле́ние (ukreplénie)

Declension

Declension of пирг

	singular	plural
indefinite	пирг pirg	пи́ргове pírgove
definite (subject form)	пи́ргът pírgǎt	пи́рговете pírgovete
definite (object form)	пи́рга pírga
count form	—	пи́рга pírga

Derived terms

• Бурга́с (Burgás, “Bourgas”) (historically known as Πύργος as per Byzantine author Manuel Philes)

References

• “пирг”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “пирг”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Nayden Gerov; Тодор Панчев (1901), “пи́ргъ, пи́ргове”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language] (in Bulgarian), volume 4, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 33

Anagrams

• грип (grip)