халище

Either augmentative of Proto-Slavic *xala (“worn-out cloth”) + -ище (-ište) or borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خالیجه (halıca, “carpet”) (whence Turkish haliçe, Azerbaijani xalça). Cognate with Macedonian алишта pl (ališta).

• IPA^(key): [ˈxaliʃtɛ]

ха́лище • (hálište) n

1. (dated) old-time thick rug, mat, carpet

   Synonyms: дебе́ла че́рга (debéla čérga), ки́теник (kítenik)

2. (dialectal, by generalization) thick, rough fabric or cloth

   Synonyms: ру́тище (rútište), (dialectal) ру́хо (rúho)

• хали́на (halína, “thick overgarment, gawn”) (dialectal)

• “халище”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “халище”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Nayden Gerov, Тодор Панчев (1904) “ха́лище”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎ (in Bulgarian), volume 5, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 484