хамсия

Bulgarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خمسی (hamsı), from Greek χαμψί (champsí). Cognates include Turkish hamsi, Romanian hamsie, Russian хамса (xamsa) and Kazakh қамса (qamsa).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [xɐmˈsijɐ]
  • Syllabification(key): хам‧си‧я
  • Hyphenation(key): хам‧сия
  • Rhymes: -ijɐ

Noun

хамси́я • (hamsíja) f (relational adjective хамси́ен, diminutive хамси́йка)

  1. European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus)

Declension
Declension of хамси́я
singular plural
indefinite хамси́я
hamsíja		 хамси́и
hamsíi
definite хамси́ята
hamsíjata		 хамси́ите
hamsíite

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