храсте

From Proto-Slavic *xvorstьje (“bushes”), originally meaning cluster of bushes. Morphologically, equivalent to храст (hrast, “thorn”) +‎ -е (-e). Cognate with Russian хворо́стье pl (xvoróstʹje) (dialectal) and (except for the grammatical classification) formally equivalent to Old Church Slavonic хврастиѥ n (xvrastije) (Serbian rendition), Slovene hrástje n, Czech chrastí n, Slovak chrastie n.

• IPA^(key): [ˈxrastɛ]

хра́сте • (hráste) pl

1. (plural only, collective) bushes, shrubs

• храст (hrast, “bush”)
• храстала́к (hrastalák, “place overgrown with bushes”)

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

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xvorstьje”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 131