глашатай

Bulgarian

Etymology

By surface analysis, глася́ (glasjá, “to voice”) +‎ -тай (-taj).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡɫɐʃɐˈtaj]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

глашата́й • (glašatáj) m (feminine глашата́йка) (historical)

1. spokesman, town crier, mouthpiece (person who used to make proclamations to the common folk, before the development of mass media)

Declension

Declension of глашата́й

	singular	plural
indefinite	глашата́й glašatáj	глашата́и glašatái
definite (subject form)	глашата́ят glašatájat	глашата́ите glašatáite
definite (object form)	глашата́я glašatája
count form	—	глашата́я glašatája
vocative form	глашата́ю glašatáju	глашата́и glašatái

References

• “глашатай”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “глашатай”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010