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Bulgarian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *tulica, formed as ту́ля (túlja, “to sheath, to contain”) (dialectal) + -ица (-ica). Akin to Old Church Slavonic тоулъ (tulŭ, “quiver”), Slovene tȗl, tȗlica (“quiver”), Serbo-Croatian ту̀љац (“quiver”), Russian тулья́ (tulʹjá, “type of hat”), Ukrainian відту́лина (vidtúlyna, “hole, hollow”).
Compare also Tulica (a river and a place-name in Central Bosnia), Tulnik (a village in Croatia).
Pronunciation
Noun
ту́лица • (túlica) f
- (dated) constraint, curtailment
- Synonym: стесне́ние (stesnénie)
- (dialectal) bottleneck
Declension
Derived terms
- Ту́лча (Túlča, “Tulcea”) (via Romanian, originally called Тулица)
- ту́лище (túlište) (augmentative)
- ту́ля (túlja) (dialectal)
- туле́й (tuléj), туле́йка (tuléjka, “hook, peg, ear of a tool”) (dialectal)
- вту́лка (vtúlka, “sleeve, collar”)
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