завалия

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Bulgarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish; equivalent to Modern Turkish zavallı (grammaticized with suffix -лия (-lija)).

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Adjective

завали́я • (zavalíja) (undeclined)

  1. (obsolete, dialectal) unfortunate, miserable

Alternative forms

Noun

завали́я • (zavalíja) m (feminine завали́йка)

  1. (colloquial) wretch
    Synonyms: несре́тник (nesrétnik), неща́стник (neštástnik), кле́тник (klétnik), бедня́к (bednják)

Declension

Declension of завали́я
singular plural
indefinite завали́я
zavalíja 		завали́и
zavalíi
definite завали́ята
zavalíjata 		завали́ите
zavalíite

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
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