корем
/[koˈrɛm]/
Bulgariannoun
Definitions
- 1.abdomen, midriff, belly, tummy
- 2.informalstomach
Synonyms & related words
Word family
- ко́рмя
- коре́мест
- корму́шка
Synonyms
- търбу́х
- шкембе́
- тумба́к
- пу́здра
- стома́х
Etymology
Inherited from Old Church Slavonic корьмъ (korĭmŭ), viewed by (some) Bulgarian scholars as a Proto-Bulghar archaism of Oghur origin. Cognate with Chuvash хырӑм (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”).
Forms
- коре́мcanonical • masculine
- korémromanization
- коре́менadjective • relational
- коре́мчеdiminutive
- коре́мindefinite • singular
- коре́миindefinite • plural
- корми́dialectal • indefinite • plural
- коре́мътdefinite • singular • subjective
- коре́митеdefinite • plural • subjective
- корми́теdefinite • dialectal • plural • subjective
- коре́маdefinite • objective • singular
- коре́митеdefinite • objective • plural
- корми́теdefinite • dialectal • objective • plural
- -count-form • singular
- коре́маcount-form • plural