бръшлян
Bulgarian
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Etymology
[edit]By surface analysis, бръ́щел (brǎ́štel) (obsolete) + -ян (-jan). Cognate with Macedonian бршлен (bršlen), Serbo-Croatian бр̀шљан, Slovene bršljȃn, but the exact proto-form is hard to pinpoint.
Further related to Ukrainian брочета́н (bročetán) (dialectal) / бороща́ник (boroščányk, “ivy”), Slovak brečtan (“ivy”), Polish brzesztan (“ivy”) and probably Russian берескле́т (beresklét, “spindle tree”), Slovak bršlen (“burning bush”), Czech brslen (“burning bush”). Additionally, loaned (from East Slavic?) into Romanian boroșlean (“ivy”), Hungarian borostyán (“ivy”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]бръшля́н • (brǎšlján) m
Declension
[edit]Declension of бръшля́н
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| indefinite | бръшля́н brǎšlján |
бръшля́ни brǎšljáni |
| definite (subject form) |
бръшля́нът brǎšljánǎt |
бръшля́ните brǎšljánite |
| definite (object form) |
бръшля́на brǎšljána | |
| count form | — | бръшля́на brǎšljána |
Alternative forms
[edit]- бръ́члян (brǎ́čljan), бъ́рчлен (bǎ́rčlen) — dialectal
- бръшнел (brǎšnel), брешнел (brešnel) — dialectal, with metathesis -лен > -нел
See also
[edit]- бръст (brǎst, “stock of leafage, buds, twigs”) (dialectal, possibly related)
References
[edit]- “бръшлян”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “бръшлян”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
- Nayden Gerov (1895) “брь́щелъ и брьшлꙗ́нъ”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language][1] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 79
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “бръшлян”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 84