щъркелица

Bulgarian

Etymology

By surface analysis, щъ́ркел (štǎ́rkel, “stork”) +‎ -ица (-ica, “-ess”, feminine suffix), or щърк (štǎrk, “stork”) (colloquial, older form) +‎ -елица (-elica).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈʃtɤrkɛlit͡sɐ]

Noun

щъ́ркелица • (štǎ́rkelica) f

  1. female equivalent of щъ́ркел (štǎ́rkel, “stork”): female storm

Declension
Declension of щъ́ркелица
singular plural
indefinite щъ́ркелица
štǎ́rkelica		 щъ́ркелици
štǎ́rkelici
definite щъ́ркелицата
štǎ́rkelicata		 щъ́ркелиците
štǎ́rkelicite

References
  • “щъркелица”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • “щъркелица”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
  • “щъркелица”, in Български тълковен речник [Bulgarian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), fourth edition, Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 2005, page 1087
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