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депвам

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Bulgarian

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Etymology

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Probably expressive or onomatopoeic in origin, similar to Bulgarian тепам (tepam, to bash), гепя (gepja, to steal). Possibly related to dialectal Serbo-Croatian дѐпати (to beat), dialectal Russian дёп (djop, inferior, last one),[1] Polish deptać (to trample), and further akin to Latvian dępât (to strike down).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈdɛpvɐm]
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Verb

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де́пвам (dépvam) first-singular present indicativeimpf (dialectal)

  1. (transitive) to strike as hard as possible
  2. (transitive, figurative) to snatch, to steal
  3. (reflexive with се) to get away

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ Anikin, A. E. (2019) “дёб, дёп”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 13 (два – дигло), Moscow: Russian Language Institute, →ISBN, page 70