девесил

Bulgarian

девесил

Alternative forms

• девиси́л (devisíl) — dialectal

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *devęsilъ, literally "nine powers" (reflecting the plant's medicinal purposes).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dɛvɛˈsiɫ]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation^(key): де‧ве‧сил
• Rhymes: -iɫ

Noun

девеси́л • (devesíl) m (uncountable)

1. lovage (Levisticum officinale)

   Synonym: лющя́н (ljuštján)

Declension

Declension of девеси́л

	singular
indefinite	девеси́л devesíl
definite (subject form)	девеси́лът devesílǎt
definite (object form)	девеси́ла devesíla

Descendants

• → Romanian: Devesel, Deveselu

References

• “девесил”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “девесил”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “девесил”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 331