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Bulgarian
Etymology
From Old Church Slavonic положение (položenie), borrowed from Old East Slavic положение (položenije). Cognate with Macedonian по́ложба (póložba).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: по‧ло‧же‧ние
Noun
положе́ние • (položénie) n
- position, location
- Synonyms: местоположение (mestopoloženie), разположение (razpoloženie)
- изходно положение ― izhodno položenie ― first position
- condition, state
- Synonyms: ситуация (situacija), състояние (sǎstojanie)
Declension
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
Etymology
положи́ть (položítʹ, “to put, to lay”) + -е́ние (-énije). Cognate with Macedonian по́ложба (póložba).
Pronunciation
Noun
положе́ние • (položénije) n inan (genitive положе́ния, nominative plural положе́ния, genitive plural положе́ний)
- position, location
- situation
- па́товое положе́ние ― pátovoje položénije ― (chess) stalemate (literally, “stalemate situation”)
- state, condition
- в интере́сном положе́нии (euphemism) ― v interésnom položénii ― pregnant (literally, “in an interesting state”)
- standing
- thesis
- (in the singular or in the plural) regulations
Declension
Derived terms