Bulgarian edit

Etymology edit

Onomatopoeic, from the onomatopoeia о-о-о (o-o-o) +‎ -кам (-kam).

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Verb edit

о́кам (ókam) first-singular present indicativeimpf (perfective о́кна) (dialectal, Western dialects)

  1. (intransitive) to scream, to shout, to yell
    Synonyms: (standard) ви́кам (víkam), крещя́ (kreštjá)

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References edit

  • окам”, 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), “окам, окна”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 829