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Bulgarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish زیتین (zeytin), from Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn, “olive”).
Pronunciation
Noun
зейти́н • (zejtín) m
- Alternative form of зехти́н (zehtín, “olive oil”).
Declension
References
- “зейтин”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “зейтин”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “зехти́н”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 637
- “зейтин”, in Български тълковен речник [Bulgarian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), fourth edition, Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 2005, page 276