положение

Bulgarian

Etymology

From Old Church Slavonic положение (položenie), borrowed from Old East Slavic положение (položenie). Cognate with Macedonian по́ложба (póložba).

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• Hyphenation: по‧ло‧же‧ние

Noun

положе́ние • (položénie) n

1. position, location

   Synonyms: местоположение (mestopoloženie), разположение (razpoloženie)

   изходно положение ― izhodno položenie ― first position

2. condition, state

   Synonyms: ситуация (situacija), състояние (sǎstojanie)

Declension

Related terms

• положа (položa)
• положителност (položitelnost)

References

• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “положѐние”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 505
• “положение”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014

Russian

Alternative forms

• положе́ніе (položénije) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Etymology

положи́ть (položítʹ, “to put, to lay”) +‎ -е́ние (-énije). Cognate with Macedonian по́ложба (póložba).

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Noun

положе́ние • (položénije) n inan (genitive положе́ния, nominative plural положе́ния, genitive plural положе́ний)

1. position, location
2. situation

   па́товое положе́ние ― pátovoje položénije ― (chess) stalemate (literally, “stalemate situation”)

3. state, condition

   в интере́сном положе́нии (euphemism) ― v interésnom položénii ― pregnant (literally, “in an interesting state”)

4. standing
5. thesis
6. (in the singular or plural) regulations

Declension

Related terms

• класть impf (klastʹ), положи́ть pf (položítʹ)