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ракита

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *orkyta.

• IPA^(key):

раки́та • (rakíta) f (relational adjective раки́тен or раки́тов)

1. basket willow (а shrub of species Salix viminalis)
2. (collective) wood/branches of basket willow (used for basket weaving)

• реки́та (rekíta) — dialectal, with e-grade

• върба́ (vǎrbá, “willow”) (hypernym)
• и́ва (íva, “osier”)

• “ракита”, in Речник на българския език (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “ракита”, in Речник на българския език (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Nayden Gerov, Тодор Панчев (1904) “ракꙑ́та”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. ‎ (in Bulgarian), volume 5, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 71
• Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (2002), “ракита”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 6 (пỳскам – словàр²), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 168

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *orkyta, which Pokorny connects to Ancient Greek ἄρκευθος (árkeuthos, “juniper”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ- (“bend”). Also compare Latvian ērkšķis (“thorn bush”).

• IPA^(key):

раки́та • (rakíta) f inan (genitive раки́ты, nominative plural раки́ты, genitive plural раки́т)

1. sallow, willow (Salix fragilis, Salix caprea) (tree or wood)
2. broom

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ракита”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress