мних

Bulgarian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Church Slavonic мънихъ (mŭnixŭ), from Old High German munih (“monk”), ultimately of Byzantine Greek origin. Doublet of мона́х (monáh), directly borrowed from Greek.

By folk etymology, interpreted as an agent noun of мня (mnja, “to ponder, to contemplate”) +‎ -их (-ih), i.e. “one who is immersed in thought”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mnix]

Noun

мних • (mnih) m (obsolete, ecclesiastical)

1. hermit (person who leads solitary lifestyle)
2. monk, friar

Declension

Declension of мних

	singular	plural
indefinite	мних mnih	мни́хове mníhove
definite (subject form)	мни́хът mníhǎt	мни́ховете mníhovete
definite (object form)	мни́ха mníha
count form	—	мни́ха mníha
vocative form	мни́хо mního	мни́хове mníhove

References

• “мних”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “мних”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 182
• “мънихъ”, in Старобългарски речник [Old Bulgarian Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), https://histdict.uni-sofia.bg, 2011—2024