таласъм
Appearance
Bulgarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (tılısım, tılsım, “talisman; magic, sorcery; ghost, apparition”), from Arabic طَلَاسِم (ṭalāsim) - plural of طِلَسْم (ṭilasm, “enigma; talisman”), from Ancient Greek τέλεσμα (télesma, “talisman; sanctified object”). Cognate with Macedonian таласам (talasam). Compare Turkish tılsım (“charm, talisman”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]таласъ́м • (talasǎ́m) m (relational adjective таласъ́мски, diminutive таласъ́мче) (dialectal)
- bug-a-boo, bogey, hobgoblin; apparition (evil nocturnal spirit that frightens people)
- Synonym: карако́нджул (karakóndžul)
- (figurative) night owl (person who is active at night)
- Synonym: но́щна пти́ца (nóštna ptíca)
Declension
[edit]Declension of таласъ́м
singular | plural | |
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indefinite | таласъ́м talasǎ́m |
таласъ́ми talasǎ́mi |
definite (subject form) |
таласъ́мът talasǎ́mǎt |
таласъ́мите talasǎ́mite |
definite (object form) |
таласъ́ма talasǎ́ma | |
count form | — | таласъ́ма talasǎ́ma |
Related terms
[edit]- талисма́н (talismán)
References
[edit]- “таласъм”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “таласъм”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
- Todorov, T. A., Racheva, M., editors (2010), “таласъм”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 7 (слòво – теря̀свам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 778
- Krǎsteva, Vesela (2003) “таласъм”, in Тълковен речник на турцизмите в българския език [Explanatory Dictionary of Turkisms in the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Skorpio vi, page 190
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