желва

From Proto-Slavic *žely, *žьlva.

• IPA^(key): [ˈʒɛɫvɐ]

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же́лва • (žélva) f (diminutive же́лка)

1. (dialectal) tortoise, turtle (reptile of order Testudines)

   Synonym: костену́рка (kostenúrka)

Bulgarian makes no implicit distinction between terrestrial and aquatic Testudines. If specification is needed, it is made explicitly:

• во́дна же́лва (vódna žélva, “aquatic turtle”)
• сухозе́мна же́лва (suhozémna žélva, “terrestrial turtle”)

• жъ́лва (žǎ́lva) — dialectal

• желвеница (želvenica) (obsolete)
  • → живеница (živenica, “scrofula”) (type of skin disease)

• “желва¹”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “желва¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 532

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žьlvъ.

• IPA^(key): /ʒêːlʋaː/
• Hyphenation: жел‧ва

же̑лва̄ f (Latin spelling žȇlvā)

1. sea turtle