охлюв

Bulgarian

Земен охлюв (Helix pomatia)

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek χοχλίας (chochlías), a dialectal variation of Ancient Greek κοχλίας (kokhlías, “snail”) (whence Old Church Slavonic кохль (koxlĭ), Latin cōchlea (“snail”)). Originally referring to the spiral shell of the snail, later generalized to mean the whole animal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔxlʲo̟f]

Noun

о́хлюв • (óhljuv) m (relational adjective о́хлювен, diminutive о́хлювче)

1. (mollusk) snail (gastropod of genus Helix)

   Synonyms: (dialectal) бухер (buher), (archaic) слима́к (slimák), (dialectal) пасо́к (pasók)

   гол о́хлюв ― gol óhljuv ― slug (literally, “naked snail)”)

2. (anatomy) helix
3. (anatomy) cochlea

Declension

Declension of о́хлюв

	singular	plural
indefinite	о́хлюв óhljuv	о́хлюви óhljuvi
definite (subject form)	о́хлювът óhljuvǎt	о́хлювите óhljuvite
definite (object form)	о́хлюва óhljuva
count form	—	о́хлюва óhljuva

Alternative forms

• о́хльов (óhljov), о́хлев (óhlev)

Related terms

• охли́дка (ohlídka, “snail's shell”) (dialectal)

References

• “охлюв”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “охлюв”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “охлюв, охльо”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 983