тулица

Bulgarian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tulica, formed as ту́ля (túlja, “to shuffle, to fold, to obscure”) (dialectal) +‎ -ица (-ica). Akin to Slovene tȗl, tȗlica (“quiver”), Serbo-Croatian ту̀љац (“quiver”), Russian тулья́ (tulʹjá, “type of hat”), Ukrainian відту́лина (vidtúlyna, “hole, hollow”).

Compare also Tulica (a river and a place-name in Central Bosnia), Tulnik (a village in Croatia). Unrelated to Russian Ту́ла (Túla).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈtulʲit͡sə]

Noun

ту́лица • (túlica) f

(dated, obsolete) curve, bend, bow → (probably) meander of a river / natural barrage
Synonyms: кри́ва (kríva), дъга́ (dǎgá) (standard terms)
(dialectal) bottleneck (in the masc. form ту́лец (túlec))

Alternative forms

ту́лец m (túlec)

Declension

Declension of ту́лица

	singular	plural
indefinite	ту́лица túlica	ту́лици túlici
definite	ту́лицата túlicata	ту́лиците túlicite

Derived terms

Ту́лча (Túlča, “Tulcea”) (historically called Тулица)
ту́лище (túlište) (augmentative)

Related terms

ту́ля pf (túlja), ту́лвам impf (túlvam) (dated)
- зату́ля pf (zatúlja), зату́лвам impf (zatúlvam, “to plug”)
- поту́ля pf (potúlja), поту́лвам impf (potúlvam, “to hide, to conceal”)
- приту́ля pf (pritúlja), приту́лвам impf (pritúlvam, “to snuggle, to cover”)
тул (tul, “quiver”) (historical)
туле́й (tuléj) (obsolete)
- туле́йка (tuléjka, “hook, peg, ear of a tool”) (dialectal)
ту́ловище (túlovište, “torso”) (possibly)

References

Gerov, Najden (1895), “ту́льцъ”, in Rěčnik na blǎgarskyj jazyk [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language] (in Bulgarian), volume 5, Plovdiv: Družestvena pečatnica “Sǎglasie”, page 379