грозя

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *groziti, а causative-iterative verb of obsolescent гроза́ (grozá, “menace”). The literary meaning is borrowed from Russian грози́ть (grozítʹ, “to threaten”).

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грозя́ • (grozjá) first-singular present indicative, impf

1. (transitive) to disfigure, to deform, to uglify
2. (transitive, literary) to threaten
   1. to daunt, to menace (to represent a threat to something or somebody)
   2. (+ dative object) to be in danger, under threat

      някого го грози нещо заплашително ― njakogo go grozi nešto zaplašitelno ― s.o. is in grave danger

3. (transitive, dialectal) to despise, to abhor

• вгрозя pf (vgrozja), вгрозявам impf (vgrozjavam)
• загрозя pf (zagrozja), загрозявам impf (zagrozjavam)
• нагрозя pf (nagrozja), нагрозявам impf (nagrozjavam)
• огрозя pf (ogrozja), огрозявам impf (ogrozjavam)
• погрозя pf (pogrozja), погрозявам impf (pogrozjavam)
• гро́зен (grózen, “ugly”)
  • грозне́я (groznéja, “to be ugly”) (stative verb)

• грозота́ (grozotá, “ugliness”) (abstract noun)

• “грозя”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “грозя”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Nayden Gerov (1895) “грозѭ́, -и́шь; -зи́лъ”, 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 248
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “грозя”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 284

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грозя́ • (grozjá)

1. present adverbial imperfective participle of грози́ть (grozítʹ)