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Bulgarian
Etymology
Spread into the standard language from Old Church Slavonic милостꙑн҄и (milostynʹi, “mercy”), from Proto-Slavic *milostyni. Morphologically equivalent to ми́лост (mílost, “mercy”) + -иня (-inja).
Pronunciation
Noun
милости́ня • (milostínja) f
- alms, charity
Declension
References
- “милостиня”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “милостиня”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010