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Bulgarian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قاپو (kapı, “door”).
Noun
капи́я • (kapíja) f
- (colloquial, dialectal, archaic) door, gate (typically with a roof above)
- (backgammon) closed point, made point; a point occupied by two or more checkers, which is impassable for the opponent's checkers
- (backgammon) any point on the board
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Turkish kabı, ezafe of kap (“case, vessel”), as in kılıç kabı (“sabre sheath”), with the graphemic change from ⟨b⟩ to ⟨p⟩ likely due to the influence of sense 1 of the term.
Noun
капи́я • (kapíja) f
- (archaic, dialectal) sheath, scabbard
Etymology 3
From капи́ (kapí).
Noun
капи́я • (kapíja) f
- (colloquial) a conically-shaped cultivar of Capsicum annuum
Etymology 4
From elision of ⟨х⟩ from кахпи́я (kahpíja, “whore”) — see ку́рва (kúrva).
Noun
капи́я • (kapíja) f
- (colloquial) an interesting, peculiar, and funny person
Declension
References
- “капия”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “капия”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
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