галфон

Bulgarian

Etymology

Uncertain. There are two theories, found in normative dictionaries of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences:

• per the Bulgarian Language Dictionary, probably from Italian gaglioffone, augmentative of gaglioffo (“loutish, clumsy”);
• per the Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary, derived from глъв (glǎv, “stupid”) (dialectal), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰluwos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlew- (“to joke, make fun”), whence also Proto-Slavic *glumъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡɐɫˈfɔn]

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• Rhymes: -ɔn
• Hyphenation^(key): гал‧фон

Noun

галфо́н • (galfón) m

1. idiot, dunce

   Synonyms: глупа́к (glupák), тъпа́к (tǎpák)

Declension

Declension of галфо́н

	singular	plural
indefinite	галфо́н galfón	галфо́ни galfóni
definite (subject form)	галфо́нът galfónǎt	галфо́ните galfónite
definite (object form)	галфо́на galfóna
count form	—	галфо́на galfóna

References

• “галфон”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “галфон”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “галфон”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 227
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “глъв”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 253