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Bulgarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish; equivalent to Modern Turkish zavallı (grammaticized with suffix -лия (-lija)).
Pronunciation
Adjective
завали́я • (zavalíja) (undeclined)
- (obsolete, dialectal) unfortunate, miserable
Noun
завали́я • (zavalíja) m (feminine завали́йка)
- (colloquial) wretch
- Synonyms: несре́тник (nesrétnik), неща́стник (neštástnik), кле́тник (klétnik), бедня́к (bednják)
Declension
References
- “завалия”, in Речник на българския език (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “завалия”, in Речник на българския език (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010