боздуган

Bulgarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوزطوغان (bozdoğan, “iron war-mace”). Cognate with Macedonian боздоган (bozdogan, “mace”), Hungarian buzogány (“mace”), Polish buzdygan (“mace”), Romanian buzdugan (“mace”), Serbo-Croatian буздован (“mace”), etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bozdoˈɡan]

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• Rhymes: -an

Noun

боздуга́н • (bozdugán) m

1. mace (a weapon, a spiked ball on a rod)

Declension

Declension of боздуга́н

	singular	plural
indefinite	боздуга́н bozdugán	боздуга́ни bozdugáni
definite (subject form)	боздуга́нът bozdugánǎt	боздуга́ните bozdugánite
definite (object form)	боздуга́на bozdugána
count form	—	боздуга́на bozdugána

References

• “боздуган”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “боздуган”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010