помия

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Bulgarian

Etymology

Deverbal from помивам (pomivam, “to wash out”) (formally reflecting as earlier *pomyja). Related to Russian помо́и m pl (pomói, “swill, slops”), Polish pomyje (“slops, swill”), Old Church Slavonic помꙑѩ (pomyję).

Pronunciation

Noun

поми́я • (pomíja) f (relational adjective поми́ен)

  1. sewage, swill, slops
  2. (figurative, collective) insults, aspersions
    хвърлям помия по някого ― hvǎrljam pomija po njakogo ― to insult (literally, “to throw filth at somebody”)

Declension

Declension of поми́я
singular
indefinite поми́я
pomíja
definite поми́ята
pomíjata

References

  • “помия”, in Речник на българския език (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • “помия”, in Речник на българския език (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “помои”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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