скребър

Bulgarian

бял скребър

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *skrebrъ (“curly, vining”), seemingly limited to South Slavic. Akin to *skreba (a-stem) (whence Macedonian скреба (skreba)), *skrebǫtъ / *skrobǫtъ (nt-stem) (from the later is Slovene skrobọ̑t, Serbo-Croatian скро̏бӯт) and possibly further to Lithuanian skruõbti (“to excavate”), skrúoblas (“hornbeam”), Latvian skābardis (“hornbeam”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈskrɛbɐr]

Noun

скре́бър • (skrébǎr) m (dialectal)

1. vining plant of genus Clematis

   Synonyms: (standard) па́вит (pávit), ви́тва (vítva)

Declension

Declension of скре́бър

	singular
indefinite	скре́бър skrébǎr
definite (subject form)	скре́бърът skrébǎrǎt
definite (object form)	скре́бъра skrébǎra

Alternative forms

• скре́ба f (skréba)
• скре́бът m (skrébǎt), скре́бат m (skrébat)

References

• Nayden Gerov, Тодор Панчев (1904) “скре́ба (ж.); скре́бръ и скре́бъръ (м.)”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎^[1] (in Bulgarian), volume 5, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 177
• Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (2002), “скреба, скребър”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 6 (пỳскам – словàр²), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 791