зехтин

• (dialect) зейти́н (zejtín)
• (Eastern) зийти́н (zijtín), (Asia Minor and Göbel Bulgarian) зити́н (zitín), (Shipka) зайти́н (zajtín)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish زیتین (zeytin, “olive”), from Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn, “olive”).

The -х takes the place of the expected -й- by way of excessively careful pronunciation (Bulgarian: свръхстарателност (svrǎhstaratelnost)), according to Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary. Compare Bulgarian зейтин (zejtin), as well as Macedonian зејтин (zejtin) and Serbo-Croatian zejtin, where this change does not occur.

• IPA^(key): [zɛxˈtin]

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зехти́н • (zehtín) m (relational adjective зехти́нен or зехти́нов)

1. (countable and uncountable) olive oil

   Synonyms: (archaic) дъ́рвено масло́ (dǎ́rveno masló), (archaic or obsolete) зехти́нено масло́ (zehtíneno masló)

2. (uncountable, dialect) sunflower oil

   Synonyms: о́лио (ólio), оли́вия (olívija)

Used in plural form only when referring to several kinds of olive oil.

• зехти́нли́ев (zehtínlíev)
• зехти́нли́я (zehtínlíja)
• зехти́нли́йка (zehtínlíjka, “olive-colored towel”)
• зехти́няв (zehtínjav, “containing or stained with olive oil”), зехтиня́в (zehtinjáv, “stained with olive oil”)
• зехти́нява (zehtínjava)

• “зехтин”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “зехтин”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “зехтѝн”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 637
• “зехтин”, in Български тълковен речник [Bulgarian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), fourth edition, Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 2005, page 276