касавет

Bulgarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قسوت (qasavet) (whence modern Turkish kasvet), from Arabic قَسْوَة (qaswa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kɐsɐˈvɛt]

• Audio:

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Noun

касаве́т • (kasavét) m

1. (obsolete) disturbance, trouble, hardship

Declension

Declension of касаве́т

	singular	plural
indefinite	касаве́т kasavét	касаве́ти kasavéti
definite (subject form)	касаве́тът kasavétǎt	касаве́тите kasavétite
definite (object form)	касаве́та kasavéta
count form	—	касаве́та kasavéta

Derived terms

• касаве́тя се (kasavétja se, “to worry, to be alarmed”) (dialectal)

References

• “касавет”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1979), “касавет”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 2 (и – крепя̀), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 260