капия

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Bulgarian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [kɐˈpijɐ]
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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قاپو (kapı, door).

Noun

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капи́я (kapíjaf

  1. (colloquial, dialectal, archaic) door, gate (typically with a roof above)
  2. (backgammon) closed point, made point; a point occupied by two or more checkers, which is impassable for the opponent's checkers
  3. (backgammon) any point on the board

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Turkish kabı, ezafe of kap (case, vessel), as in kılıç kabı (sabre sheath), with the graphemic change from ⟨b⟩ to ⟨p⟩ likely due to the influence of sense 1 of the term.

Noun

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капи́я (kapíjaf

  1. (archaic, dialectal) sheath, scabbard

Etymology 3

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From капи́ (kapí).

Noun

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капи́я (kapíjaf

  1. (colloquial) a conically-shaped cultivar of Capsicum annuum

Etymology 4

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From elision of ⟨х⟩ from кахпи́я (kahpíja, whore) — see ку́рва (kúrva).

Noun

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капи́я (kapíjaf

  1. (colloquial) an interesting, peculiar, and funny person

Declension

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References

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

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