длага

Bulgarian

Etymology

Most likely from Proto-Slavic *dolga. Georgiev (BER) tentatively proposes colloquial truncation of dialectal дла́бка (dlábka, “carved shape, notch”), classified as phonetically unlikely by Trubachev (ESSJa).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈdɫaɡɐ]
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Noun

дла́га • (dlága) f

  1. (dialectal, dated) medical splint put against a fractured bone (to support its healing)
    Synonym: по́мощна ши́на (pómoštna šína)

Declension
Declension of дла́га
singular plural
indefinite дла́га
dlága		 дла́ги
dlági
definite дла́гата
dlágata		 дла́гите
dlágite

Derived terms
  • длаго́сам (dlagósam, “to splint”)

References
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “длага”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 399
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