овен

Inherited from Old Church Slavonic овьнъ (ovĭnŭ), from Proto-Slavic *ovьnъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *awinas.

• IPA^(key):
• Syllabification^(key): о‧вен
• Hyphenation^(key): овен

ове́н • (ovén) (feminine овца́, relational adjective о́внешки, diminutive овне́ or ове́нче)

1. ram (male sheep)
2. an Aries (person with the zodiac sign)

• “овен”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “овен”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “овен”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 766

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ovьnъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *awinas.

• IPA^(key):

овен • (oven) m (relational adjective овнешки)

1. ram (male sheep)
2. (astrology) Aries

Zodiac signs in Macedonian (layout · text)
о́вен (óven)	бик (bik)	бли́знаци (blíznaci)	рак (rak)
лав (lav)	де́вица (dévica)	ва́га/тере́зија (vága/terézija)	ско́рпија (skórpija)
стре́лец (strélec)	ја́рец (járec)	водо́лија/водо́леец (vodólija/vodóleec)	ри́би (ríbi)

• “овен”, in Правопис на македонскиот јазик (Pravopis na makedonskiot jazik) [Orthography of the Macedonian language]‎ (in Macedonian), 2nd edition, Skopje: Institute of Macedonian language "Krste Misirkov" – Skopje, 2017, page 53
• “овен” in Дигитален речник на македонскиот јазик (Digitalen rečnik na makedonskiot jazik) − drmj.eu

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ovьnъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *awinas.

• ове́н: IPA^(key): (standard but rare)
• о́вен: IPA^(key): (non-standard but overwhelmingly more common)

ове́н or о́вен^* • (ovén or óven^*) m anim (genitive овна́ or о́вна^*, nominative plural овны́ or о́вны^*, genitive plural овно́в or о́внов^*) (* non-standard but overwhelmingly more common)

1. (archaic) ram (male sheep)

   Synonym: бара́н (barán)

2. (astrology) an Aries (a person born with the Aries star sign)

The initial-syllable stress was revived at the end of the 1980s, after having fallen into obscurity almost 400 years prior, and is now far more common.

• Овен (Oven)
• овца́ (ovcá), ове́чка (ovéčka)
• ове́чий (ovéčij)