репам

Probably cognate with dial. Slovene repáti (“to pluck”) (e.g. repati ščir (“to pluck weed”)) and, according to BER, further with Lithuanian rė̃pti (“to reach, to grab”, j-present). May stem back from Proto-Slavic *rěpati (in view of the Lithuanian cognate).

• IPA^(key):

ре́пам • (répam) first-singular present indicative, impf (dialectal)

1. (transitive) to pluck, to pick carefully hair (as cosmetic procedure)

   Hypernym: (in general sense) ску́бя (skúbja)

• Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (2002), “репам¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 6 (пỳскам – словàр²), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 224
• Nayden Gerov, Тодор Панчев (1904) “ре́памь”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎ (in Bulgarian), volume 5, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 78

Of onomatopoeic origin, probably inherited from Proto-Slavic *repati (cf. dial. Serbo-Croatian рѐпати (“to strike”), Russian ре́пнуть (répnutʹ, “to crack”)).

• IPA^(key):

ре́пам • (répam) first-singular present indicative, impf (perfective ре́пна) (dialectal)

1. (transitive) to thwack, to smack, to hack
2. (reflexive with се, figurative) to swank

• ре́пвам (répvam), ре́пкам (répkam) (semelfactive)
• ре́пча се (répča se, “to brag, to bluster”)
• изре́пам pf (izrépam), изре́пвам impf (izrépvam)
• оре́пам pf (orépam), оре́пвам impf (orépvam)
• репе́ж (repéž) (action noun)
• ре́пет (répet, “furrow, ditch”) (dialectal)

• ро́пам (rópam, “to bang”) (dialectal)

• Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (2002), “репам²”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 6 (пỳскам – словàр²), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 224

• IPA^(key):

ре́пам • (répam) f inan pl

1. dative plural of ре́па (répa)