капия
Bulgarian
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from Ottoman Turkish قاپو (kapı, “door”).
Noun
editкапи́я • (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
editBorrowed 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
editкапи́я • (kapíja) f
Etymology 3
editFrom капи́ (kapí).
Noun
editкапи́я • (kapíja) f
Etymology 4
editFrom elision of ⟨х⟩ from кахпи́я (kahpíja, “whore”) — see ку́рва (kúrva).
Noun
editкапи́я • (kapíja) f
- (colloquial) an interesting, peculiar, and funny person
Declension
editDeclension 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)
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