длага

Bulgarian

Медицинска длага за крак

Etymology

Most likely from Proto-Slavic *dolga. Georgiev (BER) tentatively proposes colloquial truncation of dialectal дла́бка (dlábka, “carved shape, notch”), classified as phonetically unlikely by Trubachev (ESSJa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɫaɡɐ]

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Noun

дла́га • (dlága) f

1. (dialectal, dated) medical splint put against a fractured bone (to support its healing)

   Synonym: по́мощна ши́на (pómoštna šína)

Declension

Declension of дла́га

	singular	plural
indefinite	дла́га dlága	дла́ги dlági
definite	дла́гата dlágata	дла́гите dlágite

Derived terms

• длаго́сам (dlagósam, “to splint”)

References

• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “длага”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 399