гирло

Ukrainian

гирло

Etymology

Borrowed from Romanian gîrlă (see gârlă), from Bulgarian гъ́рло (gǎ́rlo),[1] from Proto-Slavic *gъrlo[2] or *gъrdlo. A doublet of го́рло (hórlo).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɦɪrɫɔ]
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Noun

ги́рло • (hýrlo) n inan (genitive ги́рла, nominative plural ги́рла, genitive plural гирл)

  1. mouth of a river, rivermouth; estuary
    Synonyms: естуа́рій (estuárij), у́стя (ústja)

Declension

References

  1. Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “гирло”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
  2. Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “гирло”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

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