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Bulgarian
Etymology
From Old Church Slavonic болꙗринъ (boljarinŭ).
Pronunciation
Noun
боля́рин • (boljárin) m (feminine боля́рка, relational adjective боля́рски)
- (historical) boyar (title of nobility in early Slavic and West Türkic countries)
- (colloquial, figurative) person from Veliko Tărnovo (the Medieval capital of Bulgaria)
Declension
- боля́р (boljár)
- боя́р (bojár) — via Russian, reinterpreted as native Slavic бой (boj, “fight, battle”) + -ар (-ar)
References
- “болярин”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “болярин”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “болярин”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 66