положение

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Bulgarian

Etymology

From Old Church Slavonic положение (položenie), borrowed from Old East Slavic положение (položenije). Cognate with Macedonian по́ложба (póložba).

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  • Hyphenation: по‧ло‧же‧ние

Noun

положе́ние (položénien

  1. position, location
    Synonyms: местоположение (mestopoloženie), разположение (razpoloženie)
    изходно положениеizhodno položeniefirst position
  2. condition, state
    Synonyms: ситуация (situacija), състояние (sǎstojanie)

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References

  • Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “положѐние”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 505
  • положение”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014

Russian

Alternative forms

Etymology

положи́ть (položítʹ, to put, to lay) +‎ -е́ние (-énije). Cognate with Macedonian по́ложба (póložba).

Pronunciation

Noun

положе́ние (položénijen inan (genitive положе́ния, nominative plural положе́ния, genitive plural положе́ний)

  1. position, location
  2. situation
    па́товое положе́ниеpátovoje položénije(chess) stalemate (literally, “stalemate situation”)
  3. state, condition
    в интере́сном положе́нии (euphemism)v interésnom položéniipregnant (literally, “in an interesting state”)
  4. standing
  5. thesis
  6. (in the singular or in the plural) regulations

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