μπουκάλι

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Greek

Etymology

A modern or mediaeval αντιδάνειο (antidáneio, “repatriated loanword”), inherited from Byzantine Greek μπουκάλιν (mpoukálin),[1] from Venetian bocal[2] -Italian boccale (“jug, bottle”), or otherwise from Sicilian buccali (“jug, bottle”)-, from Latin baucalus, from Koine Greek βαύκαλις (baúkalis, “container used for the cooling of wine”); probably of Central Atlas Tamazight[3] or Egyptian origin.[4][5]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /buˈka.li/
  • Hyphenation: μπου‧κά‧λι

Noun

μπουκάλι • (boukáli) n (plural μπουκάλια)

  1. bottle
    ένα ποτήρι και ένα μπουκάλι κρασί ― éna potíri kai éna boukáli krasí ― a glass and a bottle of wine
    ένα ποτήρι και ένα μπουκάλι του κρασιού ― éna potíri kai éna boukáli tou krasioú ― a glass and a wine bottle
  2. the contents of a bottle
    Πόσα μπουκάλια μπίρα ήπιατε χθες;
    Pósa boukália bíra ípiate chthes?
    How many bottles of beer did you[V-form] drink yesterday?

Declension

Declension of μπουκάλι
singular plural
nominative μπουκάλι • μπουκάλια •
genitive μπουκαλιού • μπουκαλιών •
accusative μπουκάλι • μπουκάλια •
vocative μπουκάλι • μπουκάλια •

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References

  1. ^ μπουκάλι - Babiniotis, Georgios (2010) Ετυμολογικό λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας Etymologikó lexikó tis néas ellinikís glóssas [Etymological Dictionary of Modern Greek language] (in Greek), Athens: Lexicology Centre
  2. ^ μπουκάλι, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
  3. ^ Varia Africana. (1918). United States: African Department of the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, p. 303
  4. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βαυκάλιον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 207
  5. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

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