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Bulgarian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Likely Inherited from Old Church Slavonic козьльрогъ (kozĭlĭrogŭ) (attested in 1073), acquiring its current form (spelled ко́зиро́гь) by the 17th century, during the Early Modern Bulgarian period. By surface analysis, ко́зи (kózi, “goat's”) + рог (rog, “horn”).
Cognates include Russian козеро́г (kozeróg), Serbo-Croatian козорог and Slovene kozorog.
Pronunciation
Noun
ко́зирог • (kózirog) m
- one of several types of ibex, particularly the Alpine ibex or steinbock
- Synonyms: алпи́йски ко́зирог (alpíjski kózirog), и́бекс (íbeks)
- a Capricorn (person with the zodiac sign)
Declension
References
- “козирог”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “козирог”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1979), “козирог”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 2 (и – крепя̀), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 525