милостиня

Bulgarian

Etymology

Spread into the standard language from Old Church Slavonic милостꙑн҄и (milostynʹi, “mercy”), from Proto-Slavic *milostyni. Morphologically equivalent to ми́лост (mílost, “mercy”) +‎ -иня (-inja).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [miɫoˈstinʲɐ]

Noun

милости́ня • (milostínja) f

1. alms, charity

Declension

Declension of милости́ня

	singular	plural
indefinite	милости́ня milostínja	милости́ни milostíni
definite	милости́нята milostínjata	милости́ните milostínite

References

• “милостиня”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “милостиня”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010