Bulgarian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Slavic *tęgliti (sę), from *tęglo (weight).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛɡlʲɐ]
  • Syllabification(key): те‧гля
  • Hyphenation(key): тег‧ля

Verb

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те́гля (téglja) first-singular present indicativeimpf (transitive)

  1. to drag, to pull, to haul
    те́гля каи́шаtéglja kaíšato suffer (literally, “to pull the leash”)
  2. to weigh (measure the weight of)
  3. (colloquial) to suck, to inhale
    Тегля цигара.
    Teglja cigara.
    I smoke a cigarette.
  4. to draw
    те́гля жре́бийtéglja žrébijto draw lots
    те́гля куршу́маtéglja kuršúmato shoot (with a gun) (literally, “to draw the bullet”)
    те́гля но́жаtéglja nóžato cut, to stab (literally, “to draw the knife”)
  5. to withdraw (e.g. money from the bank)
    Synonym: изте́гля (iztéglja)

Conjugation

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References

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  • тегля”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • тегля”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
  • тегля”, in Български тълковен речник [Bulgarian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), fourth edition, Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 2005