блъсък

Bulgarian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *blьskъ (“flash”), whence Old Church Slavonic бльскъ (blĭskŭ). The semantic development seems to have been “flash, flicker” → “sudden movement” → “strike”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɫɤsɐk]

• Audio:

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Noun

блъ́сък • (blǎ́sǎk) m (relational adjective блъ́скав) (dated, obsolescent)

1. strike, jerk, hit

Declension

Declension of блъ́сък

	singular	plural
indefinite	блъ́сък blǎ́sǎk	блъ́съци blǎ́sǎci
definite (subject form)	блъ́съкът blǎ́sǎkǎt	блъ́съците blǎ́sǎcite
definite (object form)	блъ́съка blǎ́sǎka
count form	—	блъ́съка blǎ́sǎka

Derived terms

• блъ́скам impf (blǎ́skam), блъ́сна pf (blǎ́sna, “to jostle”) (inchoative)
• блъ́щя (blǎ́štja, “to glimmer”) (causative-iterative, dialectal)
• блъско́т (blǎskót, “push, stroke”) (dialectal)
• сблъ́сък (sblǎ́sǎk, “collision”)

References

• “блъсък”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• Nayden Gerov (1895) “бль́съкъ”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎^[1] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 50
• “блискъ”, in Старобългарски речник [Old Bulgarian Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), https://histdict.uni-sofia.bg, 2011—2024