комбал

Bulgarian

Alternative forms

• ко́мбаль (kómbalʹ) — Smolyan

Etymology

Per the Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary, possibly from dialectal Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (kombulak, “oak gall”), with regressive assimilation: u - a > a - a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔmbɐɫ]

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• Hyphenation^(key): ком‧бал

Noun

ко́мбал • (kómbal) m

1. (colloquial, often augmentative, usually in the plural) eye

   Synonyms: око́ (okó), очи́ще (očíšte) (augmentative)

2. (regional) ball, clump

Declension

Declension of ко́мбал

	singular	plural
indefinite	ко́мбал kómbal	ко́мбали kómbali
definite (subject form)	ко́мбалът kómbalǎt	ко́мбалите kómbalite
definite (object form)	ко́мбала kómbala
count form	—	ко́мбала kómbala

References

• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1979), “ко̀мбал”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 2 (и – крепя̀), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 569