гута

Bulgarian

Etymology

Probably cognate with Serbo-Croatian гу̏та (“edema”), Slovene guta (“apoplexy”), either from Proto-Slavic *guta (Georgiev, Sławski) or borrowed from Latin gutta (“drop”) (Snoj).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡutɐ]

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Noun

гу́та • (gúta) f

1. type of artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus)

   Synonyms: земна ябълка (zemna jabǎlka), гулия (gulija)

2. (dialectal) edema, swelling

   Synonyms: цицина (cicina), врага (vraga), оток (otok)

Declension

Declension of гу́та

	singular	plural
indefinite	гу́та gúta	гу́ти gúti
definite	гу́тата gútata	гу́тите gútite

Derived terms

• гутка (gutka, “small lump, tuber”)
• гутав (gutav, “swollen, twisted, deformed; wretched, incapable”)
• сгутавя (sgutavja), сгутявам (sgutjavam, “to nestle”)

References

• “гута”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “гута”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 296