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Bulgarian
Etymology
By surface analysis, щъ́ркел (štǎ́rkel, “stork”) + -ица (-ica, “-ess”, feminine suffix), or щърк (štǎrk, “stork”) (colloquial, older form) + -елица (-elica).
Pronunciation
Noun
щъ́ркелица • (štǎ́rkelica) f
- female equivalent of щъ́ркел (štǎ́rkel, “stork”): female storm
Declension
References
- “щъркелица”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “щъркелица”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
- “щъркелица”, in Български тълковен речник [Bulgarian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), fourth edition, Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 2005, page 1087