крагуй

Bulgarian

Крагуй

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *korgujь, *korguľь, cognate with Serbo-Croatian кра̀гӯј, крагу́јац, Slovene kragúlj, dialectal Ukrainian крагу́й (krahúj), кря́гулець (krjáhulecʹ), крогуле́ць (krohulécʹ) (probably borrowed from Polish), Polish krogulec, Czech krahujec, Slovak krahulec. Either onomatopoeic or of Oghur origin (itself possibly borrowed from an Iranian source). In the later case, probably akin to Hungarian karvaly (“sparrowhawk”), Chuvash хӗрхи (hĕrh̬i, “falcon”), Kyrgyz кыргый (kırgıy, “sparrowhawk”), and more distantly to Persian کرکس (kargas, “vulture”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [krɐˈɡuj]

Noun

крагу́й • (kragúj) m

1. (dialectal) falcon, merlin (bird of genus Falco)

   Synonym: (standard) соко́л (sokól)

Declension

Declension of крагу́й

	singular	plural
indefinite	крагу́й kragúj	крагу́и kragúi
definite (subject form)	крагу́ят kragújat	крагу́ите kragúite
definite (object form)	крагу́я kragúja
count form	—	крагу́я kragúja

Alternative forms

• каргу́й (kargúj), карагу́й (karagúj) — dialectal
• крагуи́л (kraguíl) — archaic, 11 cent.

Derived terms

• крагу́ец (kragúec, “merlin”)
• крагу́ест (kragúest), крагу́ев (kragúev, “falconid”)

Related terms

• кря́кам (krjákam, “croak”), кърко́ря (kǎrkórja, “to gaggle”) (possibly)

References

• “крагуй”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “крагуй”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1979), “крагуй”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 2 (и – крепя̀), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 703