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Bulgarian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *mъďa (“weakening, abatement”); equivalent to мъждя (mǎždja, “to fade away”) + -а (-a). Cognate with dialectal Russian мжа (mža, “day dream”), Czech mze pl (“tuberculose”) and akin to Russian ме́дленный (médlennyj, “slow”), Serbo-Croatian ма̏дал (“unclear, blur”), Slovene medel (“weak, pale”), Polish mdły (“insipid, bland”).
Noun
мъжда́ • (mǎždá) f
- (dialectal, colloquial) epidemic, plague
- Synonyms: епидемия (epidemija), мор (mor), зараза (zaraza)
Declension
- мъждив (mǎždiv, “pale, faint”)
References
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “мъждъ”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 376