длага

Bulgarian edit

Медицинска длага за крак

Etymology edit

Most likely from Proto-Slavic *dolga. Georgiev (BER) tentatively proposes colloquial truncation of dialectal дла́бка (dlábka, “carved shape, notch”), classified as phonetically unlikely by Trubachev (ESSJa).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [ˈdɫaɡɐ]
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Noun edit

дла́га • (dlága) f

(dialectal, dated) medical splint put against a fractured bone (to support its healing)
Synonym: по́мощна ши́на (pómoštna šína)

Declension edit

Declension of дла́га

	singular	plural
indefinite	дла́га dlága	дла́ги dlági
definite	дла́гата dlágata	дла́гите dlágite

Derived terms edit

длаго́сам (dlagósam, “to splint”)

References edit

Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “длага”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 399