Bulgarian

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Etymology

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From Old Church Slavonic оставити (ostaviti), from Proto-Slavic *ostaviti. Equivalent to о- (o-) +‎ ста́вя (stávja, to put, to set) (obsolete in Modern Bulgarian).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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оста́вя (ostávja) first-singular present indicativepf (imperfective оста́вям)

  1. to leave (behind), abandon
  2. to delay
  3. to give up, quit
  4. to let, allow to happen
  5. to let be
  6. (rare) to resign

Conjugation

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References

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