Bulgarian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Church Slavonic вепрь (veprĭ), from Proto-Slavic *veprь. See there for cognates in other Slavic languages.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈvɛpɐr]
  • Hyphenation(key): ве‧пър
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Noun

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ве́пър (vépǎrm

  1. (literary, rare) male wild boar
    Synonym: глига́н (gligán)
  2. (dialectal) male (fatted) pig
    Synonym: шопа́р (šopár)

Declension

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References

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  • вепър”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • вепър”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “вепър”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 134
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