Bulgarian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dyxati.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈdixɐm]
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Verb

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ди́хам (díham) first-singular present indicativeimpf (perfective ди́хна)

  1. (intransitive) to take a breath, to breathe (once)
  2. (transitive, figurative) to smell, to scent
    ни лук ял, ни лук дихал (idiom)
    ni luk jal, ni luk dihal
    to pretend that [one] has not done (something)
    (literally, “[one] neither has eaten onion, nor [one] has smelled onion”)

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  • дихам”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “дихам, дихвам, дихна”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 398