капия
Bulgarian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قاپو (kapı, “door”).
Noun edit
капи́я • (kapíja) f
- (colloquial, dialectal, archaic) door, gate (typically with a roof above)
- (backgammon) closed point, made point; a point occupied by two or more checkers, which is impassable for the opponent's checkers
- (backgammon) any point on the board
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Turkish kabı, ezafe of kap (“case, vessel”), as in kılıç kabı (“sabre sheath”), with the graphemic change from ⟨b⟩ to ⟨p⟩ likely due to the influence of sense 1 of the term.
Noun edit
капи́я • (kapíja) f
Etymology 3 edit
From капи́ (kapí).
Noun edit
капи́я • (kapíja) f
Etymology 4 edit
From elision of ⟨х⟩ from кахпи́я (kahpíja, “whore”) — see ку́рва (kúrva).
Noun edit
капи́я • (kapíja) f
- (colloquial) an interesting, peculiar, and funny person
Declension edit
Declension of капи́я
References edit
- “капия”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “капия”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
Anagrams edit
- пикая (pikaja)