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Bulgarian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *čitаlišče. By surface analysis, чи́там (čítam, “to read, to account”) (dialectal, colloquial) + -алище (-alište).
Pronunciation
Noun
чита́лище • (čitálište) n (relational adjective чита́лищен)
- cultural club, lyceum
- наро́дно чита́лище ― naródno čitálište ― community center
Declension
References
- “читалище”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “читалище”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010