See also: гуня

Bulgarian

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A girl dressed in гуна

Etymology

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A Paleo-Balkan wanderwort akin to Byzantine Greek γούνα (goúna, coarse garment), Albanian gunë (goatskin coat), Latin gunna (leather garment). Possibly stemming back from Proto-Slavic *guna*guňa*guňь, an early Scythian borrowing ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gawnám (fur).

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɡunɐ]
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Noun

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гу́на (gúnaf (diminutive гу́нче or гу́ница)

  1. (historical) old-fashined coarse garment or gown
    Synonyms: наме́тка (namétka), шу́ба (šúba), ро́ба (róba)
  2. (dialectal) fur coat, cape
    Synonym: кожу́х (kožúh)

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References

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  • гуна”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “гуня, гуна”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 294

Macedonian

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гуна (gunaf (plural гуни, diminutive гунче)

  1. a type of garment

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гу́на (gúnaf anim (genitive гу́ны, nominative plural гу́ны, genitive plural гун)

  1. (archaic, colloquial) threadbare clothes, rags, tatters
  2. (archaic, colloquial, figurative) (male or female) sloven, slut, slattern

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