боздуган

Bulgarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوزطوغان (bozdoğan, “iron war-mace”). Cognate with Macedonian боздоган (bozdogan, “mace”), Hungarian buzogány (“mace”), Polish buzdygan (“mace”), Romanian buzdugan (“mace”), Serbo-Croatian буздован (“mace”), etc.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [bozdoˈɡan]
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  • Rhymes: -an

Noun

боздуга́н • (bozdugán) m

  1. mace (a weapon, a spiked ball on a rod)

Declension
Declension of боздуга́н
singular plural
indefinite боздуга́н
bozdugán		 боздуга́ни
bozdugáni
definite
(subject form)		 боздуга́нът
bozdugánǎt		 боздуга́ните
bozdugánite
definite
(object form)		 боздуга́на
bozdugána
count form — боздуга́на
bozdugána

References
  • “боздуган”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • “боздуган”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
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