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Greek
Etymology
A modern or mediaeval αντιδάνειο (antidáneio, “repatriated loanword”), inherited from Byzantine Greek μπουκάλιν (mpoukálin),[1] from Venetan bocal[2] -Italian boccale (“jug, bottle”), or otherwise from Sicilian buccali (“jug, bottle”)-, from Latin baucalus, from Koine Greek βαύκαλις (baúkalis, “container used for the cooling of wine”); probably of Central Atlas Tamazight[3] or Egyptian origin.[4][5]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /buˈka.li/
- Hyphenation: μπου‧κά‧λι
Noun
μπουκάλι • (boukáli) n (plural μπουκάλια)
- bottle
- ένα ποτήρι και ένα μπουκάλι κρασί ― éna potíri kai éna boukáli krasí ― a glass and a bottle of wine
- ένα ποτήρι και ένα μπουκάλι του κρασιού ― éna potíri kai éna boukáli tou krasioú ― a glass and a wine bottle
- the contents of a bottle
Πόσα μπουκάλια μπίρα ήπιατε χθες;- Pósa boukália bíra ípiate chthes?
- How many bottles of beer did you[V-form] drink yesterday?
Declension
Declension of μπουκάλι
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singular
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plural
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nominative
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μπουκάλι (boukáli)
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μπουκάλια (boukália)
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genitive
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μπουκαλιού (boukalioú)
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μπουκαλιών (boukalión)
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accusative
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μπουκάλι (boukáli)
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μπουκάλια (boukália)
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vocative
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μπουκάλι (boukáli)
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μπουκάλια (boukália)
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See also
References
- ^ μπουκάλι - Babiniotis, Georgios (2010) Ετυμολογικό λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας Etymologikó lexikó tis néas ellinikís glóssas [Etymological Dictionary of Modern Greek language] (in Greek), Athens: Lexicology Centre
- ^ μπουκάλι, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
- ^ Varia Africana. (1918). United States: African Department of the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, p. 303
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βαυκάλιον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 207
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
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