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Bulgarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قصاب (kassâb), from Arabic قَصَّاب (qaṣṣāb).
Pronunciation
Noun
каса́п • (kasáp) m
- (low colloquial) butcher
- (low colloquial, figuratively) brutal, harsh person that causes bloodshed; slaughterer
Declension
References
- “касап”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
Macedonian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قصاب (kassâb) (Turkish kasap).
Pronunciation
Noun
касап • (kasap) m
- (dated) butcher, slaughterer
- Synonym: месар (mesar)
Declension