гибам

From Proto-Slavic *gybati. Etymologically identical with Old Church Slavonic гꙑбати (gybati, “to perish”), whence modern Bulgarian заги́вам (zagívam), поги́вам (pogívam). Modern semantics attested in prefixed прѣгꙑбати (prěgybati, “to bend, to shove”).

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ги́бам • (gíbam) first-singular present indicative, impf (perfective ги́бна or ги́бнувам) (dialectal)

1. (transitive) to thread, to roll

   Synonym: задя́вам (zadjávam)

2. (transitive) to shove, to push, to move

   Synonyms: бу́там (bútam), мъ́рдам (mǎ́rdam)

3. (transitive) to hang, to dangle

   Synonym: зака́чам (zakáčam)

4. (reflexive with се) to get involved (+ в (v))

   Synonym: ме́ся се (mésja se)

5. (reflexive with се) to be touched, affected, moved (emotionally)

   Synonyms: зася́гам се (zasjágam se), тро́гвам се (trógvam se)

• изги́бам (izgíbam, “to skew, to distort”) (dialectal)
• наги́бам (nagíbam, “to roll, to shove”), наги́бам се (nagíbam se, “to bow”) (dialectal)
• поги́бам (pogíbam, “to impel, to poke, to prod”) (dialectal)
• подги́бам се (podgíbam se, “to ridicule, to mock”) (dialectal, figuratively)
• сги́бам се (sgíbam se, “to croach”) (dialectal)
• гиба́чка (gibáčka), ги́баница (gíbanica, “teasing, josh”) (dialectal)
• ги́бел (gíbel, “roll of yarn”) (dialectal)
• ги́бък (gíbǎk, “flexile”)

• гъ́на (gǎ́na), сгъ́вам (sgǎ́vam, “to fold, to bend”)
• ги́на (gína), заги́вам (zagívam), поги́вам (pogívam, “to perish”)
  • ги́бел (gíbel, “demise, honorable death”)

• “гибам”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “гибам”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 239
• Nayden Gerov (1895) “гꙑ́бамь”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎ (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 262