храсте

Bulgarian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *xvorstьje (“bushes”), originally meaning cluster of bushes. Morphologically, equivalent to храст (hrast, “thorn”) +‎ -е (-e). Cognate with Russian хворо́стье pl (xvoróstʹje) (dialectal) and (except for the grammatical classification) formally equivalent to Old Church Slavonic хврастиѥ n (xvrastije) (Serbian rendition), Slovene hrástje n, Czech chrastí n, Slovak chrastie n.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈxrastɛ]

Noun

хра́сте • (hráste) pl

(plural only, collective) bushes, shrubs

Declension

Declension of хра́сте

	plural
indefinite	хра́сте hráste
definite	хра́стете hrástete

Related terms

храст (hrast, “bush”)
храстала́к (hrastalák, “place overgrown with bushes”)

References

храст in Rečnik na bǎlgarskija ezik (Institut za bǎlgarski ezik)

Further reading

Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xvorstьje”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 131