лих

Inherited from Old Church Slavonic лихъ (lixŭ), from Proto-Slavic *lixъ.

• IPA^(key):

лих • (lih) (adverb ли́хо, abstract noun ли́хост or лихота́) (obsolete)

1. (poetic) nimble, lithe

   Synonyms: напори́ст (naporíst), бу́ен (búen), бърз (bǎrz)

2. (dialect) strange, oddball, whimsical, perverse (unusual or degraded in character)
3. (dialect) vile, accursed; evil

   Synonym: зъл (zǎl)

4. secretive, clandestine

   Synonyms: пота́ен (potáen), скрит (skrit), лука́в (lukáv)

5. (poetic) sorrowful, doleful, morose

   Synonym: печа́лен (pečálen)

6. (mathematics) odd (not divisible by 2)

   Synonyms: нече́тен (nečéten), тек (tek)

• лив (liv), лиф (lif) — Southwestern dialects

• лиша́ (lišá, “to destitute”), лише́ние (lišénie, “destitution”)
• лиху́я (lihúja, “to sly, to cheat, to deceive”) (dialectal)
• ли́хичък (líhičǎk) (diminutive)
• лихо́т (lihót, “beast, wild animal”) (dialectal)

• ли́пса (lípsa, “lack”) (cognate Greek loanword)
• ли́хва (líhva, “interest, fee”) (cognate Gothic loanword)

• “лих”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “лих”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Nayden Gerov (1899) “лихъ, -а, -о”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎ (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 16
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “лих”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 435

• IPA^(key):

лих • (lix)

1. short masculine singular of лихо́й (lixój)

лих • (lix) n inan pl

1. genitive plural of ли́хо (líxo)