пловка
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Bulgarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]плу́вам (plúvam, “to swim, to float”) + -ка (-ka)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]пло́вка • (plóvka) f (masculine пловъ́к)
- (literally) floater, flotsam
- Synonym: плю́то (pljúto)
- (dialectal) female equivalent of пловъ́к (plovǎ́k): duck, anatid
- (particularly) female equivalent of пловъ́к (plovǎ́k): mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
- Synonyms: зеленогла́ва па́тица (zelenogláva pática), зелегла́вка (zeleglávka)
Inflection
[edit]Declension of пло́вка
Alternative forms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]- пло́вка зеленогла́вка (plóvka zelenoglávka, “mallard, Anas platyrhynchos”)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “пловка”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- Nayden Gerov, Тодор Панчев (1901) “пло́вка”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language][1] (in Bulgarian), volume 4, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 44