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Bulgarian
Etymology
From an earlier занят (zanjat) (19 cent.), borrowed from Ottoman Turkish صنعت (sanat, zanat). Cognate with Turkish sanat.
The modern form is reanalyzed as if from Old Church Slavonic за(н)ѩти (za(n)jęti, “to occupy, to take part in”) (cf. Bulgarian занятие (zanjatie, “occupation”), занимание (zanimanie, “exercise, occupation”)).
Pronunciation
Noun
заная́т • (zanaját) m
- craft, art (skilled practice)
- Synonyms: умение (umenie), изкуство (izkustvo), уметност (umetnost)
- profession
- Synonym: професия (profesija)
- occupation, exercise
- Synonyms: занятие (zanjatie), занимание (zanimanie), дейност (dejnost), задатие (zadatie)
- business
- Synonyms: поминък (pominǎk), бизнес (biznes)
Declension
Derived terms
References
- “занаят”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “занаят”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 599