помия

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Bulgarian

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Etymology

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Deverbal from помивам (pomivam, to wash out) (formally reflecting as earlier *pomyja). Related to Russian помо́и m pl (pomói, swill, slops), Polish pomyje (slops, swill), Old Church Slavonic помꙑѩ (pomyję).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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поми́я (pomíjaf (relational adjective поми́ен)

  1. sewage, swill, slops
  2. (figurative, collective) insults, aspersions
    хвърлям помия по някогоhvǎrljam pomija po njakogoto insult (literally, “to throw filth at somebody”)

Declension

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References

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  • помия”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • помия”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “помои”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress