шалвари

Bulgarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شالوار (şalvar) (whence modern Turkish şalvar / şelvar) + native plural marker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃɐɫˈvari]

Noun

шалва́ри • (šalvári) pl

1. (plural only) shalwars (type of trousers worn in Muslim countries)

Declension

Declension of шалва́ри

	plural
indefinite	шалва́ри šalvári
definite	шалва́рите šalvárite

Coordinate terms

• га́щи (gášti, “trousers”)
• пантало́ни (pantalóni, “pants”)
• поту́ри (potúri, “slacks”)
• пижа́ма (pižáma, “pajamas”)

References

• “шалвари”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “шалвари”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Krǎsteva, Vesela (2003) “шалвари”, in Тълковен речник на турцизмите в българския език [Explanatory Dictionary of Turkisms in the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Skorpio vi, page 234