тлен

Bulgarian

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Proto-Slavic *tъlěnъder.

Russian тлен (tlen)bor.

Bulgarian тлен

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тлен • (tlen) f (singular only)

(archaic, poetic) decay, rot, dust, ashes
- (Can we date this quote?), K. Hristov, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
  Сърце пламтящо ще угасне, / ще стане всичко прах и тлен / и гробът в бурен ще зарасне — / последний спомен зарад мен.
  Sǎrce plamtjašto šte ugasne, / šte stane vsičko prah i tlen / i grobǎt v buren šte zarasne — / poslednij spomen zarad men.
  A burning heart will extinguish, / everything will become dust and decay / and the grave will overgrow with weeds — / the last memory of me.

Declension of тлен
	singular
indefinite	тлен tlen
definite	тлента́ tlentá

“тлен”, in Infolex Bulgarian Dictionary (in Bulgarian), Institute for Bulgarian Language, 2014
“тлен”, in ЛексИт [LexIt] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
“тлен”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
“тлен”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

^ I. Gaberoff and authors (2002), “тлен”, in Rečnik na čuždite dumi v bǎlgarskija ezik s priloženija [Речник на чуждите думи в българския език с приложения] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Gaberoff Publ. House, page 750

тлен • (tlen) m inan (genitive тле́на, uncountable)

(poetic) decay, rot
предохрани́ть от тле́на ― predoxranítʹ ot tléna ― to save; to prevent from decay
dust
dust, vanity, nothingness, sham
обрати́ться/преврати́ться в тлен ― obratítʹsja/prevratítʹsja v tlen ― to turn to dust
(neologism or slang) despair