мързя

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mьrzěti (ě/i-conjugation), *mьrziti (i-conjugation). Some dictionaries make distinction between the senses “to loathe” and “to idle”, but etymologically they stem from the same origin.

• IPA^(key):

мързя́ • (mǎrzjá) first-singular present indicative, impf

1. (intransitive, obsolete)
   1. to stagnate, to get depleted, to lose strength or significance
   2. (figurative) to disgust, to repulse, to bore away
2. (transitive)
   1. (dialectal) to lose interest, sympathy towards something → to loathe, to abhor

      мързя мързеливи люде ― mǎrzja mǎrzelivi ljude ― to loathe lazy people

   2. (transitive, impersonal) (+ accusative pronoun) to laze, to idle, to slug

      някого го мързи да свърши нещо ― njakogo go mǎrzi da svǎrši nešto ― somebody is lazy to do something

• мра́зя (mrázja, “to hate, to detest”)
• мраз (mraz, “frost”)
• мръ́зна (mrǎ́zna, “to feel cold”)

• “мързя”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “мързи”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Nayden Gerov (1899) “мрьзи́, -зѣ́ло”, 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 87
• Nayden Gerov (1899) “мрьзѭ́, -и́шь; -зи́лъ”, 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 87
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “мързя”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 410
• “мрьзѣти”, in Старобългарски речник [Old Bulgarian Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), https://histdict.uni-sofia.bg, 2011—2024