лъв

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Archi

Letter

лъв (lʰʷ) (lower case, upper case Лъв)

  1. The forty-sixth letter of the Archi alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

See also

Bulgarian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Church Slavonic львь (lĭvĭ), from Proto-Slavic *lьvъ, ultimately from Latin leō via a Germanic language.

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Noun

лъв (lǎvm (feminine лъви́ца, relational adjective лъ́вов or лъ́вски, diminutive лъ́вче)

  1. lion (mammal)
    Synonym: (archaic, name of currency) лев (lev)
  2. a Leo (person with the zodiac sign)

Declension

References

  • лъв”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • лъв”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “лъв”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, pages 535-536