пущинак

Bulgarian

Etymology

From пу́щи (púšti, “barren, wild”) (dialectal) +‎ -нак (-nak), an expressive variant of standard Bulgarian пуст (pust, “empty, desolate”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [poʃtiˈnak]
  • Rhymes: -ak

Noun

пущина́к • (puštinák) m

  1. wilderness, wasteland
    Synonym: пу́стош (pústoš)

Declension
Declension of пущина́к
singular plural
indefinite пущина́к
puštinák		 пущина́ци
puštináci
definite
(subject form)		 пущина́кът
puštinákǎt		 пущина́ците
puštinácite
definite
(object form)		 пущина́ка
puštináka
count form — пущина́ка
puštináka

Alternative forms
  • пущиня́к (puštinják) — dialectal

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