капия

Bulgarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kɐˈpijɐ]

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Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قاپو (kapı, “door”).

Noun

капи́я • (kapíja) f

1. (colloquial, dialectal, archaic) door, gate (typically with a roof above)
2. (backgammon) closed point, made point; a point occupied by two or more checkers, which is impassable for the opponent's checkers
3. (backgammon) any point on the board

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Turkish kabı, ezafe of kap (“case, vessel”), as in kılıç kabı (“sabre sheath”), with the graphemic change from ⟨b⟩ to ⟨p⟩ likely due to the influence of sense 1 of the term.

Noun

капи́я • (kapíja) f

1. (archaic, dialectal) sheath, scabbard

Etymology 3

From капи́ (kapí).

Noun

капи́я • (kapíja) f

1. (colloquial) a conically-shaped cultivar of Capsicum annuum

Etymology 4

From elision of ⟨х⟩ from кахпи́я (kahpíja, “whore”) — see ку́рва (kúrva).

Noun

капи́я • (kapíja) f

1. (colloquial) an interesting, peculiar, and funny person

Declension

Declension of капи́я

	singular	plural
indefinite	капи́я kapíja	капи́и kapíi
definite	капи́ята kapíjata	капи́ите kapíite

References

• “капия”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “капия”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

Anagrams

• пикая (pikaja)