копеле

Bulgarian

Alternative forms

• ко́пиле (kópile), ко́пило (kópilo) — dialectal

Etymology

From Old Church Slavonic копелъ (kopelŭ, “illegitimate child, boy”). Cognate with Serbo-Croatian ко̏пиле (“bastard”), Romanian copil (“boy”), and Albanian kopil(e) and kopilj (“youngster”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔpɛlɛ]

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Noun

ко́пеле • (kópele) n

1. illegitimate child (child born outside of marriage)
2. (slang, somewhat pejorative) bastard, brat

Declension

Declension of ко́пеле

	singular	plural
indefinite	ко́пеле kópele	ко́пелета kópeleta
definite	ко́пелето kópeleto	ко́пелетата kópeletata

References

• “копеле”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “копеле”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1979), “копеле, копиле”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 2 (и – крепя̀), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 613