корем
Bulgarian
Etymology
Inherited from Old Church Slavonic корьмъ (korĭmŭ), viewed by (some) Bulgarian scholars as a Proto-Bulghar archaism of Oghur origin. Cognate with Chuvash хырăм (hyrăm), Turkish karın, Kazakh қарын (qaryn), Uzbek qorin (with rounding of proto-Turkic *a > proto-Oghur *o). According to Miklosich, borrowed or elsewise related to the Turkic words.
According to Berneker, borrowed from a Balkan dialect, probably originally as a plurale tantum корми́ pl (kormí), later back-formed to коре́м sg (korém). The origin of the word is speculated to be Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós, “trunk”). Compare also Albanian kurm (“body”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [koˈrɛm]
Noun
коре́м • (korém) m (related adjective коре́мен, diminutive коре́мче)
- abdomen, midriff, belly, tummy
- Synonyms: търбу́х (tǎrbúh), шкембе́ (škembé), (dialectal) тумба́к (tumbák), пу́здра (púzdra)
- (informal) stomach
- Synonym: стома́х (stomáh)
Declension
Declension of коре́м
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| indefinite | коре́м korém | коре́ми, корми́1 korémi, kormí1 |
| definite (subject form) | коре́мът korémǎt | коре́мите, корми́те1 korémite, kormíte1 |
| definite (object form) | коре́ма koréma | |
| count form | — | коре́ма koréma |
1Dialectal.
Derived terms
- ко́рмя (kórmja, “to gut”)
- коре́мест (korémest, “ventral”)
- корму́шка (kormúška, “belly”) (dialectal)
References
- корем in Rečnik na bǎlgarskija ezik (Institut za bǎlgarski ezik)
- корем in Rečnik na bǎlgarskija ezik (Čitanka.Info)
- Todorov T., editor (2010), “корем”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 7, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 633