Bulgarian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Church Slavonic блазнити (blazniti), from Proto-Slavic *blazniti, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleǵ- (to strike).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈbɫaznʲɐ]
  • Syllabification(key): бла‧зня
  • Hyphenation(key): блаз‧ня

Verb

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бла́зня (bláznja) first-singular present indicativeimpf

  1. (transitive) to allure, to tempt
  2. (reflexive with се) to be tempted [with от (ot) ‘something’]
    Бла́зня се от иде́ята, че...
    Bláznja se ot idéjata, če...
    I am tempted by the idea that...

Conjugation

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References

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  • блазня”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • блазня”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “блазня”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 53