лющя

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Bulgarian

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Etymology

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Causative-iterative from nowadays obsolete/dialectal лю́ска (ljúska, scale, husk) +‎ (-ja) (< Proto-Slavic *ľuska).

Expressive semantics (listed by some dictionary as a separate etymon) is from related interjection люс (ljus, whoosh).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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лю́щя (ljúštja) first-singular present indicativeimpf

  1. (transitive) to husk, to scale, to hull (to remove husks, scales, hulls)
  2. (by extension) to exfoliate, to peel
  3. (expressive) to smack, to clap, to pound
    ня́кому лю́щя шама́рnjákomu ljúštja šamárto thwack a slap on somebody
  4. (reflexive with се) to shed, to slough (of skin, scales, coverring, paint, plaster)

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