Bulgarian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Slavic *pьsovati (to address a dog); equivalent to пес (pes) +‎ -увам (-uvam). Cognate with Macedonian пцуе (pcue), Serbo-Croatian псо̀вати, Slovene psováti, Russian псова́ть (psovátʹ) (colloquial), Polish psować. Semantically analogous with German hunzen (to cuss) (from Hund (dog)), Lithuanian šunióti (to curse) (from šuõ (dog)).

Verb

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псу́вам (psúvam) first-singular present indicativeimpf

  1. (intransitive) to swear
  2. (intransitive) to curse, to cuss
    Synonyms: ругая (rugaja), клеветя (klevetja)

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Derived terms

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References

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  • псувам”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “псувам”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 841