праз

Belarusian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *perz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pras]

• Audio:

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Preposition

праз • (praz) (+ accusative case)

1. across, over (from one side to the other of)
2. through

   Synonym: скрозь (skrozʹ)

3. via
4. because of, due to

   Synonym: з-за (z-za)

   • 1938 [1848], Charles Dickens, anonymous translator, Домбі і сын, Minsk: ДВБ, translation of Dombey and Son, page 510:

     — Навошта вы перапыняеце хлапца, місіс Браун? Праз вас у мяне ўсё выскачыла з галавы.

     — Navóšta vy pjerapynjajecje xlapca, misis Braun? Praz vas u mjanje wsjo vyskačyla z halavy.

     [original: "How you do take up a cove, Misses Brown! You’ve put it all out of my head again."]

     "Why do you interrupt a fellow, Mrs. Brown? Because of you, it's all gone out of my head."

Further reading

• “праз” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
• "праз" in Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984) at Verbum

Bulgarian

Alternative forms

• празъ (praz) — Pre-reform orthography (1945)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pras]

• Audio (Standard Bulgarian):

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• Rhymes: -as
• Homophone: прас (pras)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Greek πράσο (práso).

Noun

праз • (praz) m

2. (uncountable) leek (type of onion with a long cylindrical stem, white to light green long layered leaves and with a slightly spicy taste (Allium porrum))

   На паза́ра прода́ваха връ́зки пре́сен праз.

   Na pazára prodávaha vrǎ́zki présen praz.

   At the market, they were selling bunches of fresh leeks.

4. (countable) a leek; a bunch or stick of leek

   Дай ми два-три пра́за, чe щe пра́вя чорба́.

   Daj mi dva-tri práza, če šte právja čorbá.

   Give me two or three leeks, I'm going to make soup.

Declension

Declension of праз

	singular	plural
indefinite	праз praz	—
definite (subject form)	пра́зът prázǎt	—
definite (object form)	пра́за práza
count form	—	пра́за1 práza1

¹Used only in Sense 2.

References

• “праз¹”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “праз”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• “праз”, in БЕРОН (Български езикови ресурси онлайн) [BERON (Bulgarian Language Resources Online)] (in Bulgarian), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2024
• “праз”, in ЛексИт [LexIt] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “праз”, in Infolex Bulgarian Dictionary (in Bulgarian), Institute for Bulgarian Language, 2014

Further reading

• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “праз¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 588
• Nayden Gerov; Тодор Панчев (1901), “празъ”, 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 258

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *porh₃-s-osder.

Proto-Slavic *porsъ

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Proto-Slavic *kъnorzъinflu.

Proto-Slavic *porzъ

Old Church Slavonic празъ (prazŭ)

Bulgarian праз

Inherited from Old Church Slavonic празъ (prazŭ), from Proto-Slavic *porzъ (“young domestic animal”).

Noun

праз • (praz) m

1. (Sofia, Central Balkan, Belogradchik, Byala Slatina-Pleven, Moesian dialects, Smolyan, Thracian dialect) ram (uncastrated male sheep)

   Synonym: коч (koč)

2. (Vidin-Lom, Belogradchik, Central Balkan, Teteven, Subbalkan, Moesian dialects) male sheep (general term)

   Synonyms: ове́н (ovén), пръч (prǎč)

3. (Central Balkan) a male sheep that leads the flock
4. (Smolyan) an old wether (castrated male sheep)

Declension

Declension of праз

	singular	plural
indefinite	праз praz	пра́зове prázove
definite (subject form)	пра́зът prázǎt	пра́зовете prázovete
definite (object form)	пра́за práza
count form	—	пра́за práza

Derived terms

• голя́м праз (goljám praz, “big deal, so what”)

References

• “праз²”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “праз”, in ЛексИт [LexIt] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “праз”, in БЕРОН (Български езикови ресурси онлайн) [BERON (Bulgarian Language Resources Online)] (in Bulgarian), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2024

Further reading

• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “праз²”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 589

Macedonian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *prazъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pras]

Noun

праз • (praz) m

1. leek

Declension

Declension of праз

	singular
indefinite	праз (praz)
definite unspecified	празот (prazot)
definite proximal	празов (prazov)
definite distal	празон (prazon)
vocative	празу (prazu)