натрака

Bulgarian

Etymology

By surface analysis, на- (na-) +‎ тра́ка (tráka, “twirl, gyration”) (dated) (cf. Old Church Slavonic тракъ (trakŭ, “strap”)).

Noun

натра́ка • (natráka) m (dialectal)

1. (figurative) braggart, swaggerer (confident and haughty person)

Usage notes

The word is conjugated as a feminine ā-stem, but syntactically it is of masculine gender.

Declension

Declension of натра́ка

	singular	plural
indefinite	натра́ка natráka	натра́ки natráki
definite	натра́ката natrákata	натра́ките natrákite
vocative form	натра́ко natráko	натра́ки natráki

Derived terms

• натра́кан (natrákan, “haughty”)

References

• “натрака”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• Nayden Gerov (1899) “натра́ка”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎^[1] (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 232