виря

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *viriti, combining:

• An expressive variant of Bulgarian вра (vra, “to thrust into, to insert”);
• Iterative-causative of Bulgarian вря (vrja, “to boil”).

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ви́ря • (vírja) first-singular present indicative, impf (perfective ви́рна)

1. (transitive) to protrude, to erect, to prick

   виря глава/нос (idiom) ― virja glava/nos ― to swagger (literally, “to prick one's head/nose”)

   виря опашка (idiom) ― virja opaška ― to swing one's hips, to flirt (literally, “to protrude one's tail”)

2. (intransitive, dialectal) to spring, to gush out (of stream, current)
3. (reflexive with се, figurative) to swag, to booster

• ви́рам (víram) — a-conjugation, dialectal

• ви́рвам (vírvam), ви́ркам (vírkam) (semelfactive/fientive)
• извиря pf (izvirja), извирам impf (izviram, “to boil away, to spring”) (usually in 3p.)
• навиря pf (navirja), навирам impf (naviram, “to tuck inside”)
• повиря pf (povirja), повирам impf (poviram) (rare)
• провиря pf (provirja), провирам impf (proviram, “to thread through”)
• виро- (viro-)
  • вирогла́в (virogláv, “headstrong”), вирогла́вец (viroglávec, “headstrong person”)

• вир (vir, “spring”)
• вире́я (viréja, “to flourish”) (stative)

• “виря”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “виря”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “виря, вирвам, вирна, виркам”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 151