врът

Bulgarian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vьrtъ (“turn, enclosure”), cognate with Serbo-Croatian вр̏т and akin to верт in Russian вертоград (vertograd). The meaning garden continues Old Church Slavonic врьтъ (vrĭtŭ), врътъ (vrŭtŭ, “garden”) and is nowadays limited to dialects from South-Western Bulgaria (and Slavic dialects in Northern Greece).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vrɤt]

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Noun

врът • (vrǎt) m

1. turn, rotation
2. (dialectal) vegetable garden

   Synonym: зеленчукова градина (zelenčukova gradina)

Declension

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Alternative forms

• ворт (vort) — Rup dialects

Derived terms

• врътка (vrǎtka, “small arc, rotation”) (diminutive)
• връщам (vrǎštam, “to return”)

Related terms

• въртя (vǎrtja, “to rotate, to turn around”)
• въртоп (vǎrtop, “whirlpool”)
• врат (vrat, “neck”)
• врата (vrata, “door”)

References

• “врът”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• врьтъ in Исторически речник на Българския език, Sofia University "St. Clement Ohridsky"
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “врът²”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 219