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Bulgarian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gǫži (jū-stem), later reanalyzed as an (v)a-stem.
Pronunciation
Noun
гъ́жва • (gǎ́žva) f
- cloth wound and tangled into a clump
- (as a headwear) turban, shemagh
- (as a fastener) bundle, wrapping
- (figurative) jam, congestion
Declension
- гъ́жова (gǎ́žova) — with alternative decomposition of the v-stem
- гу́жва (gúžva), га́жва (gážva) — with dialectal pronunciation of proto-Slavic *-ǫ-
- гъж m (gǎž) — obsolete
References
- “гъжва”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “гъжва”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
- Nayden Gerov (1895) “гѫ́жва и гѫ́жёва”, 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 265