сопол

Bulgarian

Etymology

Several hypotheses have been proposed:

• From со́пам се (sópam se, “to snap”) +‎ -ол (-ol);
• From Proto-Indo-European *sap- (“mucus”), whence Latin sapa (“wine must”);
• From the root of си́пвам (sípvam, “to pour”), сип (sip, “embankment”), пря́спа (prjáspa, “snow drift”) (per Mladenov).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [soˈpɔɫ]

Noun

сопо́л • (sopól) m

1. snot, booger
2. (derogatory) slovenly person

Declension

Declension of сопо́л

	singular	plural
indefinite	сопо́л sopól	сопо́ли sopóli
definite (subject form)	сопо́лът sopólǎt	сопо́лите sopólite
definite (object form)	сопо́ла sopóla
count form	—	сопо́ла sopóla

Alternative forms

• со́пъл (sópǎl), сопу́л (sopúl) — dialectal, with suffixes -ъл (-ǎl), -ул (-ul)

Derived terms

• сопо́ля се (sopólja se) (causative-iterative)
• сопола́н m (sopolán), сопола́на f (sopolána, “bratty person, rascal”) (slang)
• сополи́в (sopolív, “snotty”)
  • сополи́вя се (sopolívja se, “to have snot”)

Related terms

• со́повец (sópovec, “nostril”) (dialectal, colloquial)

References

• “сопол”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “сопол”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• Nayden Gerov, Тодор Панчев (1904) “сопо́лъ”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎^[1] (in Bulgarian), volume 5, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 220
• Todorov, T. A., Racheva, M., editors (2010), “сопол”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 7 (слòво – теря̀свам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 332