длага

Bulgarian

Медицинска длага за крак

Etymology

Most likely from Proto-Slavic *dolga. Georgiev (BER) tentatively proposes colloquial truncation of dialectal дла́бка (dlábka, “carved shape, notch”), classified as phonetically unlikely by Trubachev (ESSJa).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈdɫaɡə]

Noun

дла́га • (dlága) f

(dialectal, dated) medical splint put against a fractured bone (to support its healing)
Synonym: по́мощна ши́на (pómoštna šína)

Declension

Declension of дла́га

	singular	plural
indefinite	дла́га dlága	дла́ги dlági
definite	дла́гата dlágata	дла́гите dlágite

Derived terms

длаго́сам (dlagósam, “to splint”)

References

Georgiev Vl. I., editor (1971), “длага”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 399