бляд

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Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *blędь:

• For obsolete sense: Inherited from Old Church Slavonic блѧдь (blędĭ);
• For derogatory sense: Borrowed from Russian блядь (bljadʹ).

бляд • (bljad) m or f

1. (obsolete, inherited) obscenity, indecency, vulgarity
2. (derogatory, from Russian) degenerate, rake (amoral, depraved or corrupt person)
   1. → (insult) ethnic slur for Russians and Russophiles

      Coordinate terms: раши́ст (rašíst), моска́л (moskál), ва́тник (vátnik)

Usually used as an appellation within insults and threats.

• бледо- (bledo-)
  • бледоми́слие (bledomíslie, “deprived, dirty thought”)
  • бледосло́вие (bledoslóvie, “blasphemy, profanity”)
• бля́див (bljádiv), бля́дък (bljádǎk, “vulgar, vile (of talk)”)
• бляди́на (bljadína), бля́дост (bljádost, “indecency”)

• блъ́да (blǎ́da, “blunder”) (obsolete), заблу́да (zablúda, “delusion”)
• блудник m (bludnik), блудница f (bludnica, “debauchee”)

• “блѧдь”, in Старобългарски речник (in Bulgarian), https://histdict.uni-sofia.bg, 2011—2024
• бляд in bgjargon

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *blědъ.

бляд • (bljad) (Eastern dialects)

1. Alternative form of блед (bled, “pallid, insipid”)

• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “блед, бляд”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 54