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Bulgarian
Etymology
Deverbal from помивам (pomivam, “to wash out”) (formally reflecting as earlier *pomyja). Related to Russian помо́и m pl (pomói, “swill, slops”), Polish pomyje (“slops, swill”), Old Church Slavonic помꙑѩ (pomyję).
Pronunciation
Noun
поми́я • (pomíja) f (relational adjective поми́ен)
- sewage, swill, slops
- (figurative, collective) insults, aspersions
- хвърлям помия по някого ― hvǎrljam pomija po njakogo ― to insult (literally, “to throw filth at somebody”)
Declension
Declension of поми́я
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singular
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поми́я
pomíja
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поми́ята
pomíjata
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References
- “помия”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “помия”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “помои”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress