макам

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *makati.

ма́кам • (mákam) first-singular present indicative, impf (perfective ма́кна) (dialectal)

1. (transitive) to dip, to soak, to souse
2. (in culinary) to season, to marinate (bread or meat) in salt, pepper, brine, or another seasoning

   Не учи старец как да мака яйца. (idiom)

   Ne uči starec kak da maka jajca.

   You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

   (literally, “Don't teach an old man how to season eggs.”)

• ма́ча (máča) — a/j-conjugation, obsolete

• ма́цам (mácam, “to stain”)
• мо́кря (mókrja), мо́ча (móča, “to damp, to wet”) (with short root vocalism)

• “макам²”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• Nayden Gerov (1899) “ма́камь (да ма́кнѫ, ма́кнувамь)”, 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 45
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “макам¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 619

Onomatopoeic, equivalent to ма-а-а (ma-a-a) +‎ -кам (-kam)

ма́кам • (mákam) first-singular present indicative, impf

1. (intransitive) to shout, to bellow mah!

• мекам (mekam)
• мукам (mukam), муча (muča)
• мякам (mjakam)

• “макам¹”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “макам²”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 619

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ма́кам • (mákam) m inan pl

1. dative plural of мак (mak)