светиня

Bulgarian

Etymology

Spread into the standard language from Old Church Slavonic свѧтꙑн҄и (svętynʹi, “holiness”), from Proto-Slavic *svętyni. Morphologically equivalent to свят (svjat, “holy”) +‎ -иня (-inja).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [svɛˈtinʲɐ]

Noun

свети́ня • (svetínja) f

1. sacred object, relict
2. (obsolete) sanctuary

Declension

Declension of свети́ня

	singular	plural
indefinite	свети́ня svetínja	свети́ни svetíni
definite	свети́нята svetínjata	свети́ните svetínite

Related terms

• све́тост (svétost), свя́тост (svjátost, “holiness”)

References

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