Bulgarian
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Etymology
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From гри́за (gríza, “to gnaw”) + -ач (-ač), akin to Russian грызу́н (gryzún).
Semantically a calque of Latin rōdēns (“one who gnaws”).
Pronunciation
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гриза́ч • (grizáč) m
- (literally) gnawer
- Synonyms: гложда́ч (gloždáč), (dialectal) джвака́ч (džvakáč)
- rodent (mammal of the order Rodentia)
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References
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- “гризач”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “гризач”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010