дев

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دیو (div), from Classical Persian دیو (dēw), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deywós.

• IPA^(key): [dɛf]

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дев • (dev) m (folklore)

1. dev, demihuman, giant

• деф (def), див (div)

• джин (džin, “jinn”)
• ифри́т (ifrít, “ifrit”)
• шайта́н (šajtán, “shaitan”)

• диване́ (divané, “brat, stuborn child”)

• Nayden Gerov, Тодор Панчев (1908) “*девъ и дивъ”, in Допълнение на българския рѣчникъ [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎ (in Bulgarian), volume 6, Plovdiv: Печатница "Трудъ" на Петко Бѣловѣждовъ, page 88
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “дев, деф”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 330

• IPA^(key): [dʲef]

дев • (dev) f anim pl

1. genitive/accusative plural of де́ва (déva)

дев • (dev)

1. short past adverbial perfective participle of деть (detʹ)